Cannot edit in read-only editor VS Code

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I am using Visual Studio Code V 1 31 1  I used an input function but I can t write an input in output panel it shows this error     Cannot edit in read-only editor    Please help me solve this problem

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If your code takes input from a user you can t just use output tab  You have to use any terminal as Jordan Stefanelli have said    just go to terminal tab and select powershell or default terminal  type python Nameoffile py you will be able to input

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I was experiencing this issue while using the SFTP extension in VSCode  In this case  all you have to do is right-click somewhere in the file and select  edit in local

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You are in the  Output  tab instead of the Terminal  The output tab is actually only for you to read from     Press F5 to begin Debugging and it ll bring you into the Terminal tab   The terminal is interactive  so you can read output AND type back   It is indeed a console prompt  terminal  hence its name

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I had the Cannot edit in read-only editor error when trying to edit code after stopping the debug mode  for 2-3 minutes after pressing Shift F5   Turns out the default Node version  v9 11 1  wasn t exiting gracefully  leaving VScode stuck on read-only   Simply adding  quot runtimeVersion quot    quot 12 4 0 quot  to my launch json file fixed it  alternatively  change your default Node version to the latest stable version  you can see the current version on the DEBUG CONSOLE when starting debug mode

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Go to File   Preference   Settings then  type  run code and scroll down until you see   code-runner  Run in terminal  There will be multiple options called  code-runner   In that you can find the option mentioned below  just check  Whether to run code in integrated terminal  and restart vscode    For Mac users  it is Code   Preference   Settings

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As the  Jordan Stefanelli answer  If you encounter the same problem as me that the integrated Terminal cannot read input from user as below hanging  env  Windows 10        my solution was to replace cygwin s gdb and g    with mingw64 s    then the input output are normal   also you can enable  external console  option to solve it       you can change it by enabling  externalConsole  true in the launch json then you will get a pop up console window that you can type in

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If you can t find where to find code runner as said in Ali NoumSali Traore s answer  here s what you got to do    Go to extensions  Ctrl   Shift   X  Find code runner and click on the settings icon on bottom right of the code runner Click configure extensions settings Find code runner  Run in terminal Check  Whether to run code in terminal

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Had the same problem  Here   s what I did  amp  it got me the results I wanted    Go to the Terminal of Visual studio code  Cd to the directory of the file that has the code you wrote and ran  Let s call the program   xx cpp   Type g   xx cpp -o a out  creates an executable  To run your program  type   a out

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I received the same error like  jgritten  Just like the comment before me by  jgritten  I  unstaged  and reopened vscode and the files  Now I  staged  it again  The error  Cannot edit in read-only editor  didnt come   Hope this reassures anyone who might have similar error after staging the file using git in vscode

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Click on the file and hover on Preferences  there you will find the first option as Settings and click on that  There search run code  and scroll and find the option code runner  Run in Terminal  now check the option below it

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Short Answer  After installing  quot Code Runner quot  extension  you just have to right-click the selected part of code you wish to execute and see it in the Output Tab

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The easiest way to fix this was to press  CTRL  and     in VS Code to open Settings  After that  on the search bar search for code runner  then scroll down and search for Run In Terminal and check that box as highlighted in the below image

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I received this error during a code compare with previous version and it wasn t letting me edit the current version in the Right-Window  Unrelated to what I suspect OP s issue but this was the first thread that came up for my search and the error was the same  anyway     My issue was that the particular file was  Staged  in my source control at the time  This appears to restrict editing by opening an  index  version for the compare   Solution  Un-stage the file  and reopen the comparative window

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