# Visual Studio Code terminal dies when creating plot

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visual-studio-code-terminal-dies-when-creating-plot/80019>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visual-studio-code-terminal-dies-when-creating-plot/80019 "2022-04-25T22:12:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![lewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lewis/32/5217_2.png) [@lewis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lewis)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visual-studio-code-terminal-dies-when-creating-plot/80019/1 "2022-04-25T22:12:46Z")

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Sometimes the plots plot and sometimes the REPL simply dies. I think if I make the terminal display in the editor works.

The error message is pretty impenetrable:

The terminal process “julia ‘-i’, ‘–banner=no’, ‘–project=/Users/lewis/.julia/environments/v1.7’, ‘/Users/lewis/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.6.17/scripts/terminalserver/terminalserver.jl’, ‘/var/folders/9m/q4m1bq1972z9gqw3d7s9rqfh0000gn/T/vsc-jl-repl-64b6501f-1b89-4d6e-9b37-58a666664212’, ‘/var/folders/9m/q4m1bq1972z9gqw3d7s9rqfh0000gn/T/vsc-jl-cr-20f9c87f-7f61-48bf-9900-a1117df2c7a6’, ‘USE\_REVISE=true’, ‘USE\_PLOTPANE=true’, ‘USE\_PROGRESS=true’, ‘DEBUG\_MODE=false’” terminated with exit code: 139.

I don’t remember how to get the terminal containing the REPL into an editor. Too many commands in too many places…

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**Author:** ![lewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lewis/32/5217_2.png) [@lewis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lewis)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visual-studio-code-terminal-dies-when-creating-plot/80019/2 "2022-04-25T22:20:25Z")

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This isn’t quite the solution, but once Julia has started the “magic” terminal that contains the REPL then I can drag into the editor tab bar and now it’s an “editor”.

Now, plots work.

1. Why do plots fail when Julia starts the REPL in the so-called “action pane”? Can this be prevented?
2. Is it possible to default to this mode?