Programming, Day 3, Setting up VS Code to launch from the Command Line in OS X
Problem: I wanted to launch Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code from the command line at will. What I did: Launch VS Code Hit cmd-shift-p (⌘-⇧-P) Begin to type Shell … and choose and execute “Shell Command: Install ‘code’ command in PATH” Launch Terminal and check to see if VS Code launches by typing the code command. Edit the .bash_profile file in the home folder and change the $EDITOR variable like so … # Setting Visual Studio Code as $EDITOR export VISUAL=code export EDITOR="$VISUAL" ...