JetBrains has made a beta model of a brand new terminal out there in JetBrains IDEs beginning with model 2024.1. The brand new terminal combines the feel and appear of the brand new JetBrains UI with an expanded function set.
Unveiled February 20, the brand new terminal differs visually from the outdated terminal primarily in presenting every command in a separate block. This helps customers extra simply find the beginning and finish of every command, thus enhancing readability of output, JetBrains mentioned. This transformation brings different enhancements comparable to straightforward navigation between blocks utilizing arrows and simple switching between the immediate and output utilizing shortcuts.
The command completion function additionally has been improved. The function now helps instructions, arguments, paths, and choices, and provides a brand new command historical past that enables for filtering and makes it simpler to navigate by way of not too long ago executed instructions, JetBrains mentioned. Nevertheless, the corporate famous that work on the terminal continues to be ongoing. Some shell shortcuts nonetheless don’t totally work, and a few completion choices might not be out there or could differ from shell-based completion.
Customers can change between outdated and new terminals in Settings/Preferences > Instruments > Terminal > Allow New Terminal. At the moment, the brand new terminal helps solely Bash, Zsh, and PowerShell, with help for different shells in growth. The corporate plans to roll out an IDE-based survey that enables customers to share suggestions on the terminal.
JetBrains is probably finest often called the maker of the IntelliJ IDEA IDE for Java and Kotlin, but in addition makes growth instruments for C, C++, Go, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, databases, and knowledge science.
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