How to get rid of “Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.” behaviour?

Question

Upon executing a task (cargo build in this case), the following appears in the VSCode terminal:

> Executing task: cargo build <

(output of the task he         


        

Answer 1

An alternative solution is to set the output window to auto-focus.

Add this to the task definition:

    "presentation": {
        "focus": true
    }

Then it's not that annoying anymore because you can dismiss the compiler output with a single key press.

The benefit of this is that the task output is visible, so you can see if there were any errors or warnings.