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Last modified: 07 March 2024

Open: View | Tool Windows | Terminal or AltF12

Configure: Settings CtrlAlt0S | Tools | Terminal

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.

  1. Press CtrlAlt0S to open the IDE settings and then select Plugins.

  2. 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 AltF12.

  • 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.

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You can open the terminal as an editor tab: right-click the Terminal tool window header and select Move to Editor.

Start a new local session

  • To start a new session in a separate tab, click the Add button on the toolbar or press CtrlShift0T.

    New session in the terminal

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 the Close button on the Terminal toolbar or press CtrlF4.

Press Alt0→ and Alt0← to switch between active tabs. Alternatively, you can press Alt0↓ to see the list of all terminal tabs.

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Configure shortcuts for the terminal actions in the IDE settings (CtrlAlt0S), under Keymap | Plugins | Terminal.

Start a new SSH session

  1. On the toolbar, click Start a new SSH session.

  2. Click New SSH Session, enter the address of a 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.

Start a new SSH session

To terminate the connection, click Terminate session in the terminal tab.

Rename terminal tab

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

  • To search for a certain string in a Terminal session, press Ctrl0F. This searches all text in the session: the prompt, commands, and output.

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