Is there a way to determine, inside of startup.jl, whether a Julia REPL session is running inside of VS Code? Checking if Logging.current_logger() isa VSCodeServer.VSCodeLogger seems to work once the REPL prompt is actually available, but in startup.jl will fail with UndefVarError: `VSCodeServer` n…

Check if running in VS Code inside startup.jl

piechologist February 28, 2023, 6:55pm 2

You can check the environment for ENV["TERM_PROGRAM"] == "vscode".

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