Attach an external terminal and send code there

[jooyoungseo]

From time to time, I need to work with an external terminal due to various accessibility and screen-reader compatibility issues. Would there be any way to attach R session to an external terminal and send R code from VSCode to the connected external terminal? I guess there is a way to start a listener in an external terminal to communicate with VSCode. It would be great if this feature could be considered adding for future release.

tmux would be an alternative workaround; however, it is quite tricky, especially on Windows unless we use WSL or msys2/Cygwin.

[D3SL]

I can second this wholeheartedly. Having the terminal as an external window would be a killer feature, in fact thinking that was an option was one of the original reasons I moved to VSCode from Rstudio. Even at 1440 I often find the UI uncomfortably cramped regardless of whether I go for a vertical or horizontal console.

[ElianHugh]

This would be very nice to have. At the moment a lot of commands are hard coded to use vscode.Terminals

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This issue is stale because it has been open for 365 days with no activity.

[D3SL]

This isn't stale. With all the problems VSCode seems to have with R support being able to use a completely separate terminal might be a significant improvement.