Terminal

Open: View | Tool Windows | Terminal or Alt+F12

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Configure: Settings Ctrl+Alt+S | Tools | Terminal

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MPS includes an embedded terminal emulator for working with your command-line shell from inside the IDE. Use it to run Git commands, set file permissions, and perform other command-line tasks without switching to a dedicated terminal application.

Enable the Terminal plugin

This functionality relies on the Terminal plugin, which is bundled and enabled in MPS by default. If the relevant features aren't available, make sure that you didn't disable the plugin.

Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open settings and then select Plugins.
Open the Installed tab, find the Terminal plugin, and select the checkbox next to the plugin name.

Initially, the terminal emulator runs with your default system shell, but it supports many other shells, such as Windows PowerShell, Command Prompt cmd.exe, sh, bash, zsh, csh, and so on.

Open the Terminal tool window

Go to View | Tool Windows | Terminal or press Alt+F12.
Right-click any file (for example, in the Project tool window or any open editor tab) and select Open in Terminal to open the Terminal tool window with a new session in the directory of that file.

Start a new local session

To start a new session in a separate tab, click on the toolbar or press Ctrl+Shift+T.

To run multiple sessions inside a tab, right-click the tab and select Split Right or Split Down in the context menu.

The Terminal saves tabs and sessions when you close the project or MPS. It preserves tab names, the current working directory, and even the shell history.

To close a tab, click on the Terminal toolbar or press Ctrl+F4.

Press Alt+Right and Alt+Left to switch between active tabs. Alternatively, you can press Alt+Down to see the list of all terminal tabs.

To clear the terminal screen, press Ctrl+L.

Start a new SSH session

On the toolbar, click and select New SSH Session.
Enter the address of the host to which you want to connect, and provide authentication data.
Or, if you have configured SSH configurations, you can select one of them from the list.

To terminate the connection, click in the terminal tab.

Rename terminal tab

Right-click the tab and select Rename Session from the context menu.

Search in terminal

To search for a certain string in a Terminal session, press Ctrl+F. This searches all text in the session: the prompt, commands, and output.

By default, the search is not case-sensitive. You can click Match case in the search field to make it case-sensitive.

New Terminal

Starting with the 2024.1 release, a beta version of the new terminal is available in the New UI of MPS.

Along with its improved look and feel aligned with the new UI, other major features include:

Separation of command output into distinct visual blocks. Press to navigate to the output area and to switch to the input area. Use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate the output area blocks.
Command completion, including completion for command names, arguments, flags, and paths. For each suggested value, the new terminal displays quick documentation.
Completion for command names and arguments is available as you type them, but you can also press Ctrl+Space or Tab after a command name to get the list of possible arguments.
To display the history of commands that you have previously entered, press Up in the input area.

Enable New Terminal

Open the Terminal tool window: Tools | Tool Windows | Terminal.
In the tool window header, click and select Enable New Terminal.

Alternatively, open the IDE settings (Ctrl+Alt+S) and go to Tools | Terminal | Enable New Terminal.

Search in output blocks

While the full text buffer remains searchable, the new terminal also enables searching within specific output blocks.

In the Terminal tool window, press Ctrl+F.
In the search dialog than opens, click (Search in block) and type the keyword you are looking for.

This narrows the search to only the output block that is currently selected. You can click any block to select it or use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate them.

Last modified: 17 June 2024