visual studio code scroll back buffer

Question

Is there a way to control how many lines can be in the scroll back buffer? I need a few thousand lines. I\'m writing testing code and have extensive output going to a log but I

Answer 1

Go to File -> Preferences -> Settings

Then overwrite "terminal.integrated.scrollback": 1000, (found in the left panel) with whatever you want in the right panel.

UPDATE: In newer versions, in the Settings pane you can type "scrollback" as the search term and it should be found under Features/Terminal.

Answer 2

I think this is a setting of the terminal app you are using, eg Terminal.app on OSX or (default) xterm on Linux. If you modify the scrollback limit in those apps it should be reflected in vscode.

I opened this to ask the vscode guys for verification: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14320