# How to make vscode aware of user modules

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-vscode-aware-of-user-modules/22948>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-vscode-aware-of-user-modules/22948 "2019-04-09T06:02:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-vscode-aware-of-user-modules/22948/6 "2019-04-09T14:39:29Z")

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So here is the situation: the VS Code extension starts a new julia instance that is the language server. That code for that instance is `scripts/languageserver/min.jl`. We run that instance with a modified `JULIA_DEPOT_PATH` and a modified `LOAD_PATH`, and we shouldn’t change that. The reason they run with modified values there is to completely isolate the language server from anything that is going on in the users `.julia` folder, which has greatly helped us with setup and stability.

The language server process then starts _another_ process, which we call the symbol server process. This process runs with `JULIA_DEPOT_PATH` pointing to the users `.julia` folder. In that process we load the packages that the user uses and extract all the information we need for the language server.

So broadly speaking what we would need to do is make sure that the symbol server process runs with the `LOAD_PATH` that @ufechner7 customized. One question: how did you customize the `LOAD_PATH`? By setting the env var `JULIA_LOAD_PATH`? Or just in your julia code?

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