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by cmauniada 1661 days ago
Genuine question: What’s wrong with 3?

I mostly don’t need my terminal after getting docker up and running, and if I just want to view the output, I can always open it (Control + V).

And I usually have vscode and chrome open.
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marcosdumay 1660 days ago
If you leave it there, it eats vertical space.

I usually don't like IDE terminals, they don't do anything that you can't do in a real terminal, but comes with all kinds of problems that wouldn't be accepted on a single purpose program. But that's my preference, yours is fine too. The only real problem is leaving stuff eating up a portion of the screen when you are not using.

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alerighi 1660 days ago
They have one feature that I like, at least in VSCode terminal: if you click on something that resembles a compilation error (filename:line) it will open the editor on that file on that line. That work with every compiler/tool and it's useful.

Other than that, I don't like to leave my editor to switch to a terminal. Thus when I develop I usually use the VSCode terminal because it's more practical, to compile, run tests, use git (yes, I know that VSCode has git functionalities built in... I find the terminal more practical and fast)

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codesections 1660 days ago
> What’s wrong with 3?

You may have missed the "[that] they leave on the bottom" part of 3. It sounds like you don't leave your terminal open/visible unless you press ^v

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