macOS: Focus Terminal App Intent#8961
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Awesome. This looks good to me.
Just noting it so it's somewhere: with this in place, we can now implement the PRESENT_TERMINAL action too. I don't think this is used anywhere on the macOS side yet but it is an apprt action we haven't implemented.
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Closes #8791
Discussion: #8657
Summary
This adds the FocusTerminalIntent App Intent and related function (focusSurface), allows external tools (such as Shortcuts/Siri) to programmatically move focus to a specific terminal window or tab.
Verification
This functionality has been tested across following scenarios, confirming correct focus behavior for:
Note
It is not supported to move focus to a split that is hidden by a zoomed split. The same applies to the CloseTerminalIntent.
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