microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Feature Request: /help commands output to collapsible pane
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Area-Extensibility
Area-UserInterface
Issue-Feature
Product-Terminal
- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
When using command line tools, I often have to continuously repeat typing command /help to remind myself what I can do with the app.
If there was a way to output the text displayed when typing /help to a collapse box on the screen, I could then expand it to find a command, without having to keep either scrolling, or re-running the command
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how the existing /help command produces and displays its text, then inspect the terminal's current pane or UI behavior. Define the desired collapsible-pane interaction and confirm that the full /help output remains accessible without repeated commands.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100