Default behaviour of the Terminate/Restart Current Task if only one task to choose that task automatically

[GeorgeWL]

If one were to run workbench.actions.tasks.terminate or workbench.actions.tasks.restart after setting a custom keybinding for them, the UI will always prompt for the user to choose which tasks to restart/terminate.

This is great if there's multiple tasks running. But if there's only one task running then it can be a major annoyance and slow down your workflow.

I propose that the behaviour can be set (with a workbench setting) to select the only running item by default if there's no other running tasks. (A naive tasks.length == 1 check would do it or something like that?)

[vscodebot]

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[dbaeumer]

Dups #47853.

[Gama11]

I'm very much looking forward to a solution to this as well. I've wasted countless clicks on that "terminate previous task" button. :)

[Gama11]

I ended up implementing a workaround using the new tasks API:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vshaxe.terminator

[GeorgeWL]

that's not really related to this issue at all...it does get rid of the popup I suppose, which is another unrelated issue. @Gama11

[Gama11]

Yeah, I suppose you're right. It's a bit different, but still related. :)