I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I'm pretty sure VS Code installs itself into the path anyway, doesn't it? I've never had to do anything and it works using code even on Windows.
A hot tip though using open is that you can pass anything to it and it'll behave like you clicked that thing in the GUI, even URLs. So on a Mac, you could do open https://dev.to and it'd open in your default browser. Since VS Code registers itself as the handler for vscode schemes, you can also do this:
open 'vscode://file//Users/myusername/projects/myfile.txt:123:45'
And it'll open VS Code with the file /Users/myusername/projects/myfile.txt and your cursor already on line 123 and column 45. This is how those error messages that say things like "syntax error at line 20" get to magically work in some cases.
If you use VSCodium, change the appropriate bit to vscodium://, if you use Gnome or any derivatives, change open to gnome-open. Other Linux systems have other syntaxes, but generally one of those two will get you by.
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I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
A hot tip though using open is that you can pass anything to it and it'll behave like you clicked that thing in the GUI, even URLs. So on a Mac, you could do open dev.to and it'd open in your default browser. Since VS Code registers itself as the handler for vscode schemes, you can also do this:
open 'vscode://file//Users/myusername/projects/myfile.txt:123:45'
And it'll open VS Code with the file /Users/myusername/projects/myfile.txt and your cursor already on line 123 and column 45. This is how those error messages that say things like "syntax error at line 20" get to magically work in some cases.
Whooooooooa I did not know you could get this specific with open .. This should be it's own blog post.
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I'm pretty sure VS Code installs itself into the path anyway, doesn't it? I've never had to do anything and it works using
codeeven on Windows.A hot tip though using
openis that you can pass anything to it and it'll behave like you clicked that thing in the GUI, even URLs. So on a Mac, you could doopen https://dev.toand it'd open in your default browser. Since VS Code registers itself as the handler forvscodeschemes, you can also do this:And it'll open VS Code with the file
/Users/myusername/projects/myfile.txtand your cursor already on line 123 and column 45. This is how those error messages that say things like "syntax error at line 20" get to magically work in some cases.If you use VSCodium, change the appropriate bit to
vscodium://, if you use Gnome or any derivatives, changeopentognome-open. Other Linux systems have other syntaxes, but generally one of those two will get you by.It doesn't from what I've understood. You have to do it explicitly. I typically do it via the command palette like Shannon did.
Have you tried it without? What OS are you using?
Yep; I'm on Ventura OS ~ it might depend on how VS code was installed, but I've had to follow Shannon's approach.
Whooooooooa I did not know you could get this specific with
open .. This should be it's own blog post.