display current initialPosition/initialRows/initialCols

[bruceoberg]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

After the window position and size has been adjusted manually, I'd like to know exactly which numbers to set for initialPosition, initialRows, and initialCols in my profile. That is, I want to adjust my window by hand and then restore to that later.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Hard to say... I just want to see the numbers. Perhaps some text in the about box? Or some commented out text in settings.json so that I can uncomment it to restore the window?

(Note that this is related to #4620 where I want to set the numbers from the command line. I need a way to adjust the window and get the numbers for my command line parameters, if that is ever offered).

[DHowett-MSFT]

Sorry for taking so long -- I've been deliberating about what the best thing to do with this feature request is. First off: thanks for filing it! I think it's worthwhile.

I feel like this is something we're going to tackle more holistically with the status bar (#3459), which could display things like the current window/pane size, and a floating drag indicator that shows where the window is/how big it is while you're moving it around. I'd prefer to use those as more natural affordances than finding somewhere in the UI to stick ephemeral data like this.

I toyed with a couple other ideas:

1. a way to copy a JSON blob for the active configuration
2. A way to commit the active settings as default (Feature Request: Save current config as Initial #1056)

At the end of the day, though, this'll be helped immensely by the settings UI (#1564) ... so I'm going to close it out.

In favor of one of those three bugs: this is either behavior that would be encompassed by, or a /dupe of #1056 #3459 and #1564.

Thanks!

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!