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The ability to toggle the split direction of a pane #10665

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Rosefield opened this issue Jul 15, 2021 · 7 comments · Fixed by #10713
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Tracked by #1000

The ability to toggle the split direction of a pane #10665

Rosefield opened this issue Jul 15, 2021 · 7 comments · Fixed by #10713
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Area-User Interface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal good first issue This is a fix that might be easier for someone to do as a first contribution Help Wanted We encourage anyone to jump in on these. Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Resolution-Fix-Committed Fix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.
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Description of the new feature/enhancement

Once a pane was split, it would be nice to change the orientation of that split. Having a hotkey to toggle the split orientation of the currently active pane would allow changing how the terminal looks without needing to close and recreate a terminal.
E.G.
Create two panes

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and then swap them to look like

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and vice versa.

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@Rosefield Rosefield added the Issue-Feature Complex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work. label Jul 15, 2021
@ghost ghost added Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements labels Jul 15, 2021
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Oh huh, I suppose we don't have a issue for this one in #1000 yet. This doesn't seem too hard, wire up a keybinding, and just toggle the orientation of the split on the parent of the active pane. Easy enough!

@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added Area-User Interface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal good first issue This is a fix that might be easier for someone to do as a first contribution Help Wanted We encourage anyone to jump in on these. Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. and removed Issue-Feature Complex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work. labels Jul 15, 2021
@ghost ghost removed the Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements label Jul 15, 2021
@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added this to the Terminal Backlog milestone Jul 15, 2021
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@zadjii-msft I would like to take up this issue. What hotkey should be set to toggle split direction?

@jelonmusk
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Hi
I am a rookie contributor. This might sound silly but should the feature be developed in a specific language only or any programming language can be used?

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@NishantChandla / @jelonmusk go right ahead!

I don't think we really want to have this bound to a key by default right now. If you create an action like togglePaneOrientation, once it's all wired up, you should be able to execute the action through the Command Palette without needing to bind a dedicated key for it.

This might sound silly but should the feature be developed in a specific language only or any programming language can be used?

The entire Terminal is written in C++, so you'll have to use that.

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@NishantChandla @jelonmusk if you two choose not to do this task I was also planning on doing it, just let me know.

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@Rosefield As you have created the issue, you can work on this!

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@ghost ghost added the In-PR This issue has a related PR label Jul 19, 2021
@DHowett DHowett removed the Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting label Jul 22, 2021
@ghost ghost closed this as completed in #10713 Aug 2, 2021
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Add the ability to toggle a pane's split direction (#10713)
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Add the ability to toggle a pane's split direction
- Switch from horizontal to vertical split (and vice versa)
- Propogate new borders through to children.

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#10665 

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* [x] Closes #10665
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* [ ] Documentation updated. If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal) and link it here: #xxx
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* [ ] I've discussed this with core contributors already. If not checked, I'm ready to accept this work might be rejected in favor of a different grand plan. Issue number where discussion took place: #xxx

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## Validation Steps Performed
Ran terminal, created multiple panes in different orientations, ran command through command palate and verified that they displayed properly in the new orientation.
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ghost commented Aug 31, 2021

🎉This issue was addressed in #10713, which has now been successfully released as Windows Terminal Preview v1.11.2421.0.:tada:

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