Keybinding commands to open the pull request and terminal tabs in the right panel

[riccardopll]

The right panel can host a pull request tab, but there is no way to open it from the keyboard once the panel has any other tab.

The "+" button in the panel tab bar opens a menu whose items show letter accelerators (B, T, F, D, P, A). Those letters only work while the menu is open, and no keybinding opens the menu. The only keyboard route is Tab to the "+" button, Enter, then P.

Proposal

Add two commands:

• rightPanel.openPullRequest
• rightPanel.openTerminal

Behavior for each:

• If the panel already has that tab, activate and focus it.
• Otherwise open the panel and add the tab.
• For the pull request tab, if the branch has no pull request, do nothing, matching the disabled menu item.

The diff tab can already be bound through diff.toggle, so these two would complete the keybindings for the right panel tabs.

Related

• [Feature]: rightPanel.openTerminal, a keybinding command to open a terminal in the right panel #6824 asks for rightPanel.openTerminal.
• [Feature]: Expose more actions as bindable keybinding commands #6817 tracks more bindable commands generally, but does not cover right-panel tabs.

Verified on T3 Code desktop 0.0.40 (Alpha), macOS, and against the current main command list.

[juliusmarminge]

Note

Grok responding on behalf of Julius.

This is now covered by #15686, which just landed on main. Mod+T (Cmd+T on macOS, Ctrl+T on Windows/Linux) opens the right panel's + tab menu from the keyboard, and the existing letter accelerators then pick the tab, so Mod+T then P opens the pull request tab and Mod+T then T opens a terminal. The shortcut is rebindable as rightPanel.new. It applies in the desktop app and installed PWAs; regular browser tabs keep Cmd/Ctrl+T for themselves.

Closing as resolved. If a dedicated single-chord command for a specific tab is still worth having on top of this, feel free to open a new idea for it.