Chapter 7: Hidden Windows Terminal Actions

Windows Terminal contains a set of actions that are hidden by default—that is, not bound to any keyboard shortcut and not listed in the settings.json file. In this chapter, we'll learn how to discover these actions and cover some of the more interesting actions available.

This set of actions changes over time; it increases as the developers from Microsoft and the open source community create new actions and decreases as actions prove popular enough to get an associated keyboard shortcut. In this chapter, we'll cover the actions that are hidden as of December 2020, and provide instructions on how to identify more hidden actions added in the future.

We'll cover the following areas in this chapter:

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