Terminal running in environment

[jamievicary]

I've got this working, but when I want to build manually I still need to write "nix-shell" in the terminal by hand, it seems. Could this not be done automatically by the extension?

[GuillaumeDesforges]

This should rather be an option, as sometime you want to get out of the nix-shell to edit it and debug it.

[rvanlaar]

An idea, document the behavior. I'm rather new to nix pkgs. My first thought that the extension was broken since the packages weren't available in the terminal.

[paulhdk]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but a workaround could be to set up direnv in the project folder. That way, every time one enters the project directory via the VS Code terminal, nix-shell is started. At least it seems to be working for me.

[m1cr0man]

Another simple solution I found is to add a custom terminal profile. Here's an example you can drop into your code-workspace config:

{
    "settings": {
        "terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
            "Nix Shell": {
                "path": "nix-shell",
                "icon": "terminal-linux",
            },
        },
        "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.linux": "Nix Shell"
    }
}

There is that couple second delay when you open a window from running nix-shell but it's not nearly as bad as waiting for it to open then running nix-shell yourself :)

[Kruemmelspalter]

this is a good workaround for now, but I think it would still be good for the plugin to somehow include this functionality