Choice of terminal

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#1

Hello team,
I think it would be good if a user can have an option to select the terminal he wishes to use.
I can see at the moment directly cmd.exe is called.
Maybe we can give the user an option in settings where he/she can define the executable he/she wants to use.
eg: pwsh.exe

or alternatively, a command which will be invoked by default when the terminal panel is open. So in case, someone wants to use a different terminal application or set some aliases or anything like that, even that can be achieved.

#2

Actually which terminal is used is defined by the COMSPEC environment variable on Windows and SHELL on Mac/Linux.

So if you want to use a different terminal - just the environment variable to what you want.

#3

Awesome!
I will definitely use that.
@George I have noticed that wappler has alot of such hidden gems which users are not aware as its not mentioned anywhere in the documentation.
Infact, when I google ‘wappler “COMSPEC”’, nothing turns up.

So maybe a documentation sprint is much in need?

Alternatively, maybe we can have a community driven docs/wiki which we all can contribute towards?

#4

Well actually those are system standard defined environment variables that identify the used shell, so we just comply to the standards.

#5

:smile: :+1:

Something new you learn every day!