Arguments passed in launch terminal

[andreeis]

We want to implement in the CMake Tools VSCode extension arguments passing to the launch terminal. We realized that there are numerous situations of quoting and escaping that we would need to handle in order for the arguments to be passed properly in all the available types of terminals.

We were wondering if this is already handled centrally by VSCode, so that all the other extensions wouldn't have to worry all about the same thing. Is there some API we that can act as an intermediary between an array of arguments and any type of terminal supported in VSCode?

Or how do you suggest we best approach this on our side if there is nothing available from your side?

[Tyriar]

For sendText you can send whatever you want, for args quoting is done for you if you pass in a string[], some cases might not work there which is why we let you use string here if you want to pass in a pre-quoted args string:

vscode/src/vs/vscode.d.ts

Lines 8044 to 8048 in 84ac04e

	/**
	* Args for the custom shell executable. A string can be used on Windows only which allows
	* specifying shell args in [command-line format](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/08dfcab2-eb6e-49a4-80eb-87d4076c98c6).
	*/
	shellArgs?: string[] | string;

The built-in capability is only provided for args as string[], not for args as string or sendText.