Visual Studio Code scroll back buffer

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Is there a way to control how many lines can be in the scroll back buffer?

I need a few thousand lines. I'm writing testing code and have extensive output going to a log, but I have simple pass / fail results to the console.

The validations for each test print to the console. I may have 150 to 250 tests per suite, but say 8+ validations per test. I'd rather not open a full terminal window as this integrated environment is cleaning up my screen quite a bit.

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tocallaghan tocallaghan · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-23T05:22:37

Go to menu File → Preferences → Settings.

Then overwrite "terminal.integrated.scrollback": 1000, (found in the left panel) with whatever you want in the right panel.

In newer versions, in the Settings pane, you can type "scrollback" as the search term and it should be found under Features/Terminal.

Visual Studio Code scroll back buffer

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