microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Add support for `list-profiles` subcommand
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Issue-Task
Product-Terminal
- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
From the original spec:
list-profiles
list-profiles [--all,-A] [--showGuids,-g]Displays a list of each of the available profiles. Each profile displays it's
name, separated by newlines.Parameters:
--all,-A: Show all profiles, including profiles marked"hidden": true.--showGuids,-g: In addition to showing names, also list each profile's
guid. These GUIDs should probably be listed first on each line, to make
parsing output easier.
addenda 2026
- Add a
--jsonflag that dumps the evaluated state of profiles to the terminal. - add a
--fullflag to--jsonthat dumps all the properties to the final output. So that a tool could enumerate all the profiles and all the icons and etc etc etc, even the ones from fragments and dynamic profiles and everything.
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating the CLI subcommand handling and the profile enumeration logic, then trace how hidden, dynamic, and fragment-derived profiles are represented. Done means the requested list-profiles options, including evaluated JSON output and the --full extension, are specified and covered by appropriate tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100