If you only need the $PATH
to be set in the integrated terminal, you can use VS Code’s terminal.integrated.env.<platform>
variable (added in version 1.15). Press Cmd+Shift+P (or Ctrl+Shift+P) and search for “Preferences: Open Settings (JSON)”. Then add the following entry to the settings file:
"terminal.integrated.env.osx": {
"PATH": "...:/usr/bin:/bin:..."
}
(Replace .osx
with .linux
or .windows
as needed.)
To see your system’s $PATH
, type echo "$PATH"
in Terminal.app, and copy and paste it into the settings snippet above.
As for having the $PATH
available everwhere in VS Code, so that it will
be used by extensions that call binaries, the only workaround I’ve found so far is this:
-
Configure your shell (bash by default) to have the
$PATH
you want. For example, my~/.bash_profile
has the following line:PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"
-
In VS Code, press ⇧⌘P and type
install 'code' command
if you haven’t done so before. -
Quit VS Code.
-
Launch VS Code not by clicking the icon in the dock or in Launchpad, but by opening Terminal.app and typing
code
. Your newly set path will be active in VS Code until you quit it. -
If VS Code restarts, for example due to an upgrade, the
$PATH
will reset to the system default. In that case, quit VS Code and re-launch it by typingcode
.