Change default terminal app in Visual Studio Code on Mac

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Here’s an example of how to make another terminal the default for VSCode, in this example I’ve downloaded iTerm2 and copied iTerm2 to Applications.

  1. Code (Menu) > Preferences > User Settings

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  1. Edit settings.json "terminal.external.osxExec": "iTerm.app" and "terminal.explorerKind": "external"

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  1. Open in Terminal

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  1. iTerm is now default terminal launched from VSCode

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