VS Code Terminal Not Allowing Typing

Question

My VS code terminal was working fine, until one day when I tried to work on a project, that was still open in VS code, my terminal didn\'t allow me to type any commands. I could

Answer 1

For me, I tried using Powershell/CMD/Bash and I was having errors/blank terminal. I found typing echo hello and pressing CTRL + C made it appear. So in fact, everything was working, my terminal was just blank/glitched out, but was really accepting input.

Answer 2

Go to terminal, preferences, settings. Check "run code in terminal" Restart VS.

Answer 3

I changed from bash to powershell in terminal first but the command prompt still not shown. Then I navigate to File -> Perferences -> Settings and it starts working (command prompt shown)

Answer 4

Okay, for those of you struggling with the same problem, I've managed to solve it by clicking on the drop-down menu that says powershell and changing it to cmd.