newTabProfile shortcut hinting

[baruchiro]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

We want to use more and more shortcuts instead of using the mouse, but for doing that we need to remember all the Windows Terminal shortcuts.

I thought about something like if you hold the Ctrl + Shift you will see the profiles list:

And then you just need to add a number to your holds to open the relevant profile.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

1. You want to open a new profile but you don't remember the profile number.
2. You start with the shared shortcut: Ctrl + Shift
3. The popup with the profiles numbers opened.
4. You add the relevant number to the Ctrl + Shift holding,

You can expand this Feature Request to all shortcuts (related to #4695)

[zadjii-msft]

I'm not sure that this is something that would really be possible - since users can override the keybindings arbitrarily, there's no way to know for sure if the newTab keybindings shared a common prefix (like ctrl+shift).

There's also the openNewTabDropdown action, bound to ctrl+shift+space by default, which might work for the scenario you're describing.

[baruchiro]

You're right. the ctrl+shift+space (how do you mark it as a keys combination in markdown?) is almost what I suggested.

Closing

[zadjii-msft]

@baruchiro Thanks for following up!

As far as the markdown, you're looking for <kbd>ctrl+shift+space</kbd> 😄