

You can learn more about configuring terminal shells in the terminal profiles article. You can select other available shells to use in terminal instances or as the default such as Command Prompt on Windows, and zsh on macOS and Linux.

The integrated terminal can use various shells installed on your machine, with the defaults being: Note: Open an external terminal with the ⇧⌘C (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+C) keyboard shortcut if you prefer to work outside VS Code. You can create a new terminal via the Terminal menu with Terminal > New Terminal.From the Command Palette ( ⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P)), use the View: Toggle Terminal command.Use the ⌃` (Windows, Linux Ctrl+`) keyboard shortcut with the backtick character.It provides integration with the editor to support features like links and error detection. Visual Studio Code includes a fully-featured integrated terminal that conveniently starts at the root of your workspace. Configure IntelliSense for cross-compiling.
