Add `vox enter` command

[AstraLuma]

Basically, a magic command that will apply the named venv to the prompt, or create a new prompt in the venv, without having to install xonsh & xontribs into the venv.

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[AstraLuma]

Hm. Could be done with caching state (sys.path and $PATH) and using site.addsitedir().

[ghost]

note: vox has an 'enter' command which is an alias of activate.

[Granitosaurus]

@astronouth7303 Could you elaborate a bit more of what you mean? {env_name} in $PROMPT is already there. Do you mean a feature that would allow setting an unique $PROMPT for every virtual env?

I use something like this with xonsh-autoxsh

~ $ cd ~/test
~/test $ echo "$PROMPT = 'foobar $'" > .autoxsh
~/test $ cd .
Unauthorized ".autoxsh" file found in this directory. Authorize and invoke? (y/n/ignore): y
foobar $ echo "prompt was changed!"

Since it's usually a good idea to use a new virtualenvironment for every project this snipped kinda serves the same purpose.

[AstraLuma]

I mean applying a virtual environment to your xonsh session.

Or maybe spawning a xonsh shell in the environment?

Either way, it involves crossing environments and other weirdness, so it's certainly non-trivial.

[jnoortheen]

@AstraLuma vox activate already applies virtual environment to the current xonsh session. perhaps you want to spawn a new shell session with the env variable applied, like pew does?

[AstraLuma]

No, the python contents, not just the commands.

[jnoortheen]

No, the python contents, not just the commands.

could you elaborate on this? I still don't get it.

[AstraLuma]

Add the python environment of the venv to xonsh's python environment.

So you have a repl kinda matching the project you're working on.

[jnoortheen]

That can be done by adding site-packages to the PYTHONPATH of the xonsh's venv. I think it should be a separate xontrib than vox itself. It just manages the virtualenv, and to facilitate imports from the current env, seems a different thing.