Switching focus to Jupyter (IPython) terminal in Visual Studio Code

Question

I would like to place the focus from an editor buffer into the IPython terminal using only the keyboard.

I see two approaches, but they both do not seem to work.

1. Shift the focus from the editor to the terminal using workbench.action.terminal.focusNext or something alike using ctrl+backtick. This seems to be a dead end because all it ever does is shift focus to or activate a terminal in the dedicated terminal buffer at the bottom of all panes.
2. Using ctrl+{1...n} to focus on another pane. This works for other editor buffers: I switch the focus to the pane, and the focus goes into the most recent editor buffer. However, this does not work as expected for the IPython terminal: focus does switch to the pane (or group, as it is called in the left vertical side-bar), but does not go into the terminal itself.

This really is unfortunate as in my workflow, I often go forth and back between the editor and the terminal. Of course an alternative is to make a cell in the editor and execute that using shift+enter, but that is less interactive that what I would prefer.

My impression is that the IPython terminal for VSCode is something in-between an editor and a terminal, or that the action is caught in between VSCode and the Jupyter server.

Version info:

• Version: 1.32.1 (system setup)
• Commit: 05f146c7a8f7f78e80261aa3b2a2e642586f9eb3
• Date: 2019-03-08T00:51:49.278Z
• Electron: 3.1.3
• Chrome: 66.0.3359.181
• Node.js: 10.2.0
• V8: 6.6.346.32
• OS: Windows_NT x64 6.1.7601

Answer 1

Assuming your talking about the 'Python Interactive' window, I would recommend adding a feature suggestion/bug to our issues list:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues

CTRL + 1/2 should switch the focus to the 'Python Interactive' window, but we don't force the input section to have focus at the moment. That's a bug.