How to open a terminal on WebStorm?

Question

How do I get WebStorm to open a terminal?

When I try to do it I get an Exception:

\"java.io.IOEXception:couldn\'t create PTY\"

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Answer 1

For Windows 10 users, we now have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) so go to:

File > Settings > Tools > Terminal and put in shell path:

"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C "bash"

Note that you need to enable developer mode, and then WSL.