[BUG] - Terminal content lost when switch back to project

[turgs]

in my projects I usually have multiple Terminal panes running.

These expectedly disappear when switching projects, but switching back doesn't restore my previous terminal content.

[alefragnani]

Hi @turgs ,

The Project Manager extension does not save or restore any session information. Everything you see restored, is made by VS Code itself, and right now, VS Code does not support restoring Terminal sessions, as you can see in this issue (microsoft/vscode#20013), opened in VS Code repo.

I suggest you to upvote that issue, to give higher visibility to the VS Code team.

Hope this helps

[pudgereyem]

@alefragnani it seems like VS Code did fix the issue you mentioned, see comment here. An update from VS Code can be seen here, which reads:

Local terminal processes are now restored on window reload, such as when an extension install requires a reload. The terminal will be reconnected and the UI state of the terminals will be restored, including the active tab and split terminal relative dimensions.

However this didn't fix the issue where terminal content is lost when switching back to a project. Thinking that it makes sense to re-open this issue?

Thanks for the great work!

[alefragnani]

Hi @pudgereyem ,

Looking closer at the issue, I've noticed it talks about window reloads only, without mentioning restore (which is what happens when you switch back to previous opened projects/windows). So yes, switching between projects (restore previous projects) does not work.

But, If you do the same thing using Open Recent command, you will notice VS Code does not restore the Terminal sessions.

I didn't find a proper issue in VS Code repo (did a quick search) but as previously mentioned, this behavior is controlled by VS Code, not the extension. The extension only opens the desired project (using the native openFolder command) so any state VS Code has, is saved/restored by VS Code itself.

I'll try to find an open issue and link here. I would ask you to search too and if you find, please link as well.

Hope this helps

[pudgereyem]

@alefragnani that makes sense! I switched to open projects in a new window instead since I can't loose my terminals.

All the best,
Victor

[alefragnani]

I found this one (microsoft/vscode#44302), but was closes as out of scope. I didn't dig too much, but if I understand correctly, it appears the team will not support that. But, some comments were added with new extensions to support that. Maybe some of that could work for you.

[LukeDickerson19]

+1 for this!