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• 6/9/23, 10:10 AM Windows Terminal Command Palette | Microsoft Learn https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/command-palette 1/6
• How to use the command palette in
• Windows Terminal
• Article
• 10/05/2022
• The command palette lets you see which actions you can run inside Windows Terminal
• More information on how actions are defined can be found on the Actions page
• You can invoke the command palette by typing Ctrl + Shift + P
• This can be customized by adding the commandPalette command to your key bindings
• JSON
• If you'd like to enter a wt command into the command palette, you can do so by deleting the > character in the text box
• This will run the wt command in the current window
• More information on wt commands can be found on the Command line arguments page
• Invoking the command palette { "command": "commandPalette", "keys": "ctrl+shift+p" }
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• You can add a custom key binding for invoking the command palette in the command line mode directly
• JSON
• You can optionally add an icon to a command defined in your settings.json that appears in the command palette
• This can be done by adding the icon property to the action
• Icons can be a path to an image, a symbol from Segoe MDL2 Assets, or any character, including emojis
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• Nested commands let you group multiple commands under one item in the command palette
• The example below groups the font resize commands under one command palette item called "Change font size..."
• JSON
• Iterable commands let you create multiple commands at the same time, generated from other objects defined in your settings
• Currently, you can create iterable commands for your profiles and color schemes
• At runtime, these commands will be expanded to one command for each of the objects of the given type
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• If you would like to keep a command in your key bindings list but not have it appear in the command palette, you can hide it by setting its name to null
• The example below hides the "New tab" action from the command palette.