microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Split panes equally in size
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
When splitting twice into three panes, I would like the option to split by parent equally.
Instead of:
+-------+---+---+
| | | |
+-------+---+---+
Ideally it would be like this:
+----+----+----+
| | | |
+----+----+----+
Coming from iTerm this makes much more sense to me.
When splitting vertically within a horizontal pane, it would work in the same fashion.
This could be a new shortcut that when splitting, e.g. "split horizontally and keep parent" where all children are resized when a new child is added or removed. (I don't how how it currently works internally, so I'm guessing here.)
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating Windows Terminal’s existing pane-splitting and resizing behavior, then determine how parent splits should distribute space when a child is added or removed. Done means an available split option produces equal-sized panes in both orientations.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100