Terminal

Tabs, split panes, search and clickable file paths, a full terminal with a real shell in every pane.

Tabs

New tab: terminal or project? A new tab first asks where to start. Press T for a plain terminal in your home folder, O to pick a project folder, or 1–9 for a recent project. The shell starts in that folder. To skip the question, tick Don’t ask again in the dialog; turn it back on in Settings → Terminal.

Drag tabs to reorder them. A tab whose terminal is busy shows an activity pulse; closing it asks for confirmation.

Telling tabs apart: a terminal tab you haven’t renamed shows its current folder, and hovering shows the full path. Right-click a tab to give it a color. A dot appears on a tab whose output finished while you were looking at another one.

Projects: neighbouring tabs in the same git project get a project chip in front of them. Click the chip to collapse the group into one tab, and again to expand it. Sort Tabs by Project (right-click menu) brings each project’s tabs together.

Finding a tab: ⌘K opens Go to tab. Type part of a tab’s name, folder or project, then press Enter. It also shows which tabs are working and which finished.

Closing and reopening: the right-click menu has Close Others and Close Tabs to the Right, which ask once if anything is still running. ⌘⇧T reopens the last closed terminal tab in the same folder, with its name and color. It reopens the folder, not the process that was running.

Move to a new window: right-click a tab and choose Move to New Window. The shell and anything running in it keep going.

Split panes

New panes open in the same folder as the pane you split. Drag the divider to resize.

Clickable files

Any file path printed in a terminal becomes a link once the file exists. That covers the paths agents print as they work:

⏺ Write(docs/plan.md)
  ⎿  Updated src/App.tsx:42:7
Saved the report to ./out/report.pdf

• Relative paths resolve against the terminal’s current folder, so they keep working after cd.
• ~/… and absolute paths work too. A trailing :line or :line:col is ignored.
• Markdown, HTML, PDFs and images open in the preview panel beside the terminal. Everything else opens in a tab.
• A path that wraps onto the next line is still one link.
• Words that only look like files (v1.2.3, a path that doesn’t exist) are not links.

Web addresses are links too; they open in your browser.

Search

Press ⌘F to search the active pane. Toggle case-sensitive, whole-word and regex matching; Enter and Shift+Enter step through matches.

Recording and playback

Click REC in a pane’s corner to record its output. Stop it the same way, then open View Recordings from the command palette (⌘P ) to replay a session at 1×, 2× or 4×.

Notifications

When an agent finishes in a terminal you aren’t looking at, ADE shows a system notification and an in-app toast.

Your shell keys

On Linux, app shortcuts use Ctrl+Shift, so plain Ctrl keys always reach your shell: Ctrl+R searches history, Ctrl+W deletes a word, Ctrl+D sends end-of-file. On macOS, app shortcuts use ⌘ and Ctrl is left entirely to the terminal.