tasks -> send to terminal?

[cs2018ncsa]

I've been playing with tasks for a bit. I am trying to get something similar to the send-to-terminal capability in VSCode. i have a terminal open w/ a psql connection to a postgres database. i'd like to highlight a command and sent that to the terminal for execution. i think i can do that as a task. are there any examples of this anywhere?

[tepavcevic]

Closest thing to that could be configuring task for that command e.g.:

{
    "label": "Example command",
    "command": "do this command",
    "use_new_terminal": true,
    "reveal": "always"
  }

and then to have a keybinding in your keymap config to execute the task:

"ctrl-whatever": [
        "task::Spawn",
        {
          "task_name": "Example command"
        }
      ]

I use it like this for my git workflow with gitui

[cs2018ncsa]

@tepavcevic thanks for response!

I can get it to work if i launch psql in the "command" with $ZED_SELECTED_TEXT in "args" but i would like to execute commands in already connected psql session. so i don't think any command (not possible). i tried the following with no success either.

also, i set "user_new_terminal" to false and it still opens a new terminal.

{
"label": "Run SQL selection 2",
"command": "$ZED_SELECTED_TEXT;",
"use_new_terminal": false
}

i wish there was more documentation on this.

[tepavcevic]

I see, there is no way for a task to forward that input to the running terminal session. Unfortunately I am not aware of a way to do exactly that, but perhaps someone else can be of more help?

[mcabbott]

Also requested in #8674, which was closed as a dup of bigger issue #8344 . Would be nice to have a way to do this!

[dballaelliott]

A workaround using workspace::SendKeystrokes seems to be working for me

I added this to the global context in my keymap.json

    // keybinding to paste the selected text into the terminal
      "cmd-enter": [
        "workspace::SendKeystrokes",
        "cmd-c ctrl-` cmd-v enter ctrl-`"
      ]

This seems a bit hacky and relies on the default Workspace binding

     "ctrl-`": "terminal_panel::ToggleFocus",

This copies the whatever text is selected, switches to terminal, pastes, hits enter and then switches back to editor.

[afrendeiro]

Thanks a lot!
On Linux:

"ctrl-enter": [
  "workspace::SendKeystrokes",
  "ctrl-c ctrl-` ctrl-shift-v enter ctrl-` end down"
]

This already works very nicely, but unfortunately does not deal with multi-line statements and many other more complex cases.
Support out-of-the box would be amazing.