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Chance

Reputation: 2700

Visual Studio Code: Is it possible to add a task to tasks.json that reruns the previous task?

I want to add a task to my VS Code tasks.json file that can rerun the last task that I ran.

I know there is a command Rerun Last Task that I can use when I press F1 to Show All Commands. However, not every developer knows about typing F1 to show all commands, but they know about F7 for build tasks. That's why I want to add something to our baseline tasks.json.

Is there a way to somehow call the Rerun Last Task command in tasks.json? Or maybe there is a variable that has the last task run?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1198

Answers (1)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 182591

{
  "label": "rerun last command",
  "command": "${command:workbench.action.tasks.reRunTask}",
  "type": "shell",
  "problemMatcher": [],
},

That task will rerun the last task. You see you can make any command into a variable for use within launch.json or tasks.json with the form:

${command:some command ID here}

See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/variables-reference#_command-variables

That creates a "command variable" which can be used as an argument or as a command.

Upvotes: 1

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