Don't stop debugging after script execution in TemporaryIntegratedConsole

[jul-m]

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Summary

I use VSCode for developing PowerShell modules. For debugging, I create a PowerShell configuration in the launch.json file with createTemporaryIntegratedConsole option enabled. This allows for a dedicated PowerShell session for debugging that is easy to restart.

In launch.json configuration, if the script option is not provided, the debugger still waits after the [TEMP] PowerShell Extension console opens: the debugger works in interactive mode, and if a command executed in the console hits a breakpoint, the debugger pauses. This mode allows you to efficiently debug a module, rather than having to update a temporary script.

If commands are entered in the script property in launch.json, for example to load the module and set the environment, the script is executed by PES and then the debugging session is stopped, although the temporary console remains open. This makes it impossible to debug in interactive mode. This requires not filling in the script property and manually entering the initialization commands each time the debugging session is (re)started, which is not practical for daily use when you frequently need to start from scratch.

Proposed Design

It would be useful if the debug session did not close until the temporary console is closed (since the primary purpose of running a script this way is to debug). While this cannot be enabled by default for reasons I do not know, an option to enforce this behavior would be welcome and very useful for developers.

I haven't found a similar request here, but I did find one in the vscode-powershell repository: https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/1168

For my part, I have implemented a workaround that meets this need, while waiting for an official solution, by modifying a line in the ConfigurationDoneHandler.cs file: https://github.com/jul-m/PowerShellEditorServices/commit/d864c898600b82dd9b33f5abf7d7327c8af7224b

[JustinGrote]

Thanks for your submission!

This used to be the behavior both here and for the "interactive mode" debug (not specifying a script), but it was changed several years ago. As of the last status @SeeminglyScience told me it should wait until https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices/pull/1853 gets merged but progress on that has stalled recently, perhaps I'll pick it up and find what further needs to be done there to get it over the finish line.

[JustinGrote]

My related issue but I'll leave it open as a non-dupe for now. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices/issues/2180

[JustinGrote]

So I've been looking more into this and the tricky thing is that currently launch, attach, and "interactive mode" all follow very different initialization/run paths and so a setting to make this work has to permeate several services, especially if we make that a launch configuration setting and not a vscode setting (which is where I think it should be).

I might be able to put together something minimal until some of this stuff can be more unified e.g. #2191