Multi Target debug - ECONNREFUSED with Console - integrated terminal

[nroberts1]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.19.0 (816be67, 2017-12-14T09:51:12.123Z)
• OS Version: Darwin x64 17.2.0
• Extensions:

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
cucumberautocomplete	ale	2.5.0

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Multiple launch.json setups ran together fail with "Cannot connect to the target: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:9228" for any configs with:
"console": "integratedTerminal"

Example:

"version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Editor",
            "runtimeExecutable": "npm",
            "runtimeArgs": [
                "run-script",
                "debug"
            ],
            "port": 9228,
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/Editor",
            "console": "integratedTerminal"
        },
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Engine",
            "runtimeExecutable": "npm",
            "runtimeArgs": [
                "run-script",
                "debug"
            ],
            "port": 9229,
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/engine",
            "console": "integratedTerminal"
        },
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Applications",
            "runtimeExecutable": "npm",
            "runtimeArgs": [
                "run-script",
                "debug"
            ],
            "port": 9227,
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/applications",
            "console": "integratedTerminal"
        }
    ],
    "compounds": [
        {
            "name": "All Servers",
            "configurations": ["Editor", "Engine", "Applications"]
        }
    ]
}

Took a while to narrow the error down to this setup. Each application individually runs ok but when ran together I get the error.

I'm guessing "console": "externalTerminal" maybe my answer but struggling to find an example of setting this up.
Reproduces without extensions: Yes

[nroberts1]

Got the external terminal working:

launch.json
"console": "externalTerminal"

and

settings.json
"terminal.external.osxExec": "Terminal.app",

This is working fine. Would be interested to know if multiple internal terminals could be made to work though.

[weinand]

duplicate of #37589