Keep focus on text editing when spawning tasks

[fredheidrich]

Writing C code you compile often to see how your code is holding up, sometimes just to help you rewrite sections. When you fire off your build script from a new or recurring task the keyboard focus goes to the task dock until you close it, even through there is nothing to type there.

I find it annoying to keep having to switching back. It makes takes building your project from effortless, one hit combo to a two or three step dance where I have to remember where to keyboard focus is.

Instead you should be able to spawn a task in the background, and the focus is kept on the editor so you can continue working while the code is compiling.

This is how VSCode and Sublime works.

[SomeoneToIgnore]

zed/assets/settings/initial_tasks.json

Lines 17 to 21 in 5f92ac2

	// What to do with the terminal pane and tab, after the command was started:
	// * `always` — always show the task's pane, and focus the corresponding tab in it (default)
	// * `no_focus` — always show the task's pane, add the task's tab in it, but don't focus it
	// * `never` — do not alter focus, but still add/reuse the task's tab in its pane
	"reveal": "always",

Does "reveal": "never" not work for you?

[fredheidrich]

no_focus was exactly what I was looking for actually. Thank you!

Now if I can only get a problem matcher for clang errors I would be even happier, but that is a different issue that others have raised :)

Thanks again