"Allow Input" setting does not work

[rholland]

I am interested in disabling (and hiding) the input box in the Python interactive pane. My use case is a keyboard shortcut between my code and scrolling the interactive pane with keys. I do not need the input box and currently it seems to always capture the cursor which requires me to grab the mouse to get out of it.

There is a setting

Allow Input : Allow the inputting of python code directly into the interactive window

but deselecting this does not seem to change anything - the input box is still there and behaves the same.

Win 10
latest python extension
latest vs code
Anaconda 3.7

[jmew]

Thanks for the issue @rholland. I am able to reproduce this issue as well. We will look into fixing this issue. In the meantime, one way to get rid of the input box without using your mouse is to use the ESC key when the input box appears.

cc @rchiodo

[rchiodo]

Yeah looks like this regressed quite a while ago.

[rholland]

Thanks for response. Note that Esc key does not close input box for me. It just moves the cursor from input box to a focus on the "x" icon in the interactive pane (close the pane).

[rchiodo]

Validated