Настройки терминала

Enable the Terminal plugin

This functionality relies on the Terminal plugin, which is bundled and enabled in PyCharm by default. If the relevant features aren’t available, make sure that you didn’t disable the plugin.

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open settings and then select .

2. Open the tab, find the plugin, and select the checkbox next to the plugin name.

Open the Terminal tool window

• Go to or press Alt+F12.

Right-click a project item in the Project tool window and choose Open in terminal from the context menu. This way the terminal will start with the directory corresponding to the selected item.

Start a new local session

• To start a new session in a separate tab, click on the toolbar or press Ctrl+Shift+T.

  

To run multiple sessions inside a tab, right-click the tab and select or in the context menu.

The saves tabs and sessions when you close the project or PyCharm. It preserves tab names, the current working directory, and even the shell history.

To close a tab, click on the toolbar or press Ctrl+F4.

Press Alt+Right and Alt+Left to switch between active tabs. Alternatively, you can press Alt+Down to see the list of all terminal tabs.

To clear the terminal screen, press Ctrl+L.

Start a new SSH session

1. On the toolbar, click and select New SSH Session.

2. Enter the address of the 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.

To terminate the connection, click in the terminal tab.

Rename terminal tab

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

Search in terminal

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

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

Configure the terminal emulator

• Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open settings and then select .

• Alternatively, click on the Terminal toolbar and select .

New Terminal

Starting with the 2024.1 release, a beta version of the new terminal is available in the New UI of PyCharm.

Along with its improved look and feel aligned with the new UI, other major features include:

• Command completion, including completion for command names, arguments, flags, and paths. For each suggested value, the new terminal displays quick documentation.

  

  Completion for command names and arguments is available as you type them, but you can also press Ctrl+Space or Tab after a command name to get the list of possible arguments.

  To display the history of commands that you have previously entered, press Up in the input area.

Enable New Terminal

1. Open the tool window: .

2. In the tool window header, click and select Enable New Terminal.

Alternatively, open the IDE settings (Ctrl+Alt+S) and go to .

Search in output blocks

1. In the tool window, press Ctrl+F.

Enable the Terminal plugin

This functionality relies on the Terminal plugin, which is bundled and enabled in PyCharm by default. If the relevant features aren’t available, make sure that you didn’t disable the plugin.

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open settings and then select .

2. Open the tab, find the plugin, and select the checkbox next to the plugin name.

New Terminal

Starting with the 2024.1 release, a beta version of the new terminal is available in the New UI of PyCharm.

Project Settings

These settings affect the terminal only for the current project:

Specify the working directory where every new shell session should start. By default, it starts in the root directory of the current project.

Specify custom environment variables for every new shell session.

Application Settings

These settings affect the terminal in any project that you open with the current PyCharm instance:

Specify the shell that will run by default. PyCharm should automatically detect the default shell based on your environment. Here are some examples of different shells:

• Z shell: /bin/zsh

• Bash for Windows: bash.exe

• Command Prompt: cmd.exe

• Cygwin: "C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" --login -i

Default Tab name

Specify the default name for new tabs.

Play the bell sound on various events.

Close session when it ends

Close the current session when the corresponding process ends (for example, by kill).

Enable the mouse pointer support in the embedded local terminal.

Copy to clipboard on selection

Copy text selected in the terminal to the clipboard.

Paste on middle mouse button click

Paste clipboard contents by clicking the middle mouse button.

Override IDE shortcuts

Use shell-specific shortcuts instead of IDE shortcuts when the tool window is active.

Integrate the terminal with the system shell to properly keep track of your command history for sessions and load a custom config file with required environment variables.

Shell integration works for sh, bash, zsh, and fish shells.

Highlight HTTP links in the terminal and make them clickable.

Use Option as Meta key

On macOS, use the Option key as the Meta key.

Run Commands using IDE

Detect and highlight commands that can be used as IDE features instead of running them in the terminal and reading console output.

When enabled, instead of pressing Enter, which runs the command in the terminal, press Ctrl+Enter to open the corresponding GUI element.

For the Python interpreter being a virtual environment, with this checkbox selected, the virtual environment is automatically activated (activate is performed automatically).