CairoMakie with Julia 1.8 on VScode

Tooling VS Code
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I’m not sure if I understand the subtleties of your question, but what I do is every time I want to change the environment from within VScode, I go to preferences → Settings and change the Path. If you don’t need to do that too often, it’s fine.

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Thanks @ptoche. To elaborate for other people, I went to Settings > Extensions > Julia > Environment Path, and clicked “Workspace” in the red box in the attached screenshot.

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Then I clicked “Edit in settings.json”, and changed

{
    "julia.environmentPath": ""
}

to

{
    "julia.environmentPath": "<MY HOME DIRECTORY>/.julia/environments/v1.8"
}

This makes VScode REPL to start in the home environment.

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I have the following ~/.julia/config/startup.jl in place, which also works when using the command line interface (CLI) or Jupyter Notebooks:

println("Executing user-specific startup file (", @__FILE__, ")...")

try
    using Revise
    println("Revise started")
catch e
    @warn "Error initializing Revise" exception=(e, catch_backtrace())
end

using Pkg
if isfile(joinpath(pwd(), "Project.toml")) && isfile(joinpath(pwd(), "Manifest.toml"))
    Pkg.activate(pwd())
else
    Pkg.activate("$(ENV["HOME"])/.julia/environments/v$(VERSION.major).$(VERSION.minor)")
end
println("  → Overrides the environment set by the VS Code Julia extension!")
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My current startup files for Julia 1.9; which work identically both in Terminal and with VS Code.

Cross reference: Starting REPL (v1.9) within a project does not recognise packages installed at system level · Issue #3304 · julia-vscode/julia-vscode · GitHub

$JULIA_PATH/etc/julia/startup.jl

# This file contains site-specific commands to be executed on Julia startup;
# Users may store their own personal commands in `~/.julia/config/startup.jl`.

println("Executing site-specific startup file (", @__FILE__, ")...")

push!(LOAD_PATH, joinpath("$(ENV["JULIA_PATH"])", "local", "share", "julia",
        "environments", "v$(VERSION.major).$(VERSION.minor)"))

using Pkg

$HOME/.julia/config/startup.jl

println("Executing user-specific startup file (", @__FILE__, ")...")

# https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/3304
project = (Base.JLOptions().project != C_NULL ?
    unsafe_string(Base.JLOptions().project) :
    get(ENV, "JULIA_PROJECT", nothing))
if !isnothing(project)
    Pkg.activate(; io=devnull)
end

try
    using Revise
    println("Revise started")
catch e
    @warn "Error initializing Revise" exception=(e, catch_backtrace())
end

if !isnothing(project) &&
    # https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/3304
    !startswith(Base.load_path_expand(Base.LOAD_PATH[end]), project)

    if startswith(project, "@")
        if startswith(project, "@.")
            if isnothing(Base.current_project())
                Pkg.activate(joinpath("$(ENV["HOME"])", ".julia",
                        "environments", "v$(VERSION.major).$(VERSION.minor)"))
            else
                Pkg.activate(Base.current_project(); io=devnull)
            end
        else
            Pkg.activate(Base.load_path_expand(project); io=devnull)
        end
    else
        Pkg.activate(abspath(expanduser(project)); io=devnull)
    end
else
    if isfile(joinpath(pwd(), "Project.toml")) &&
        isfile(joinpath(pwd(), "Manifest.toml"))

        Pkg.activate(pwd())
    else
        Pkg.activate(joinpath("$(ENV["HOME"])", ".julia", "environments",
                "v$(VERSION.major).$(VERSION.minor)"))
    end
end

:information_source: JULIA_PATH=/usr/local/julia