Stop a gulp watch task?

Question

How do I stop a running gulp watch task without having to completely exit the program?

I can see the task running on the task bar bottom left with a spinning \"slashes\"

Answer 1

In case others run across this question, open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows, Command+Shift+P on OSX, and search for "Terminate Running Task."

Answer 2

I was facing this issue from 2-3 months. Today I just opened tasks.json and saw hint that isWatching is deprecated instead use isBackground. I changed it and ran the task and terminated ,Voila it's working.

In short- Open tasks.json. If you see isWatching property on task change it to isBackground.

Answer 3

If you ever wonder what

search for "Terminate Running Task."

does behind the scenes: "workbench.action.tasks.terminate".

so you can just bind it, like this:

{ "key": "ctrl+shift+t", "command": "workbench.action.tasks.terminate" }