As it says in the subject line.

I searched for this before and didn’t figure it out. What I want is when I open a directory that contains a .jl file, it should launch the Julia REPL and then do Pkg.activate(“.”) (which I guess I could just put in my startup.jl).

No, but that is a good idea to have an option, I think! Want to open an issue? If there is a Manifest.toml (and a Project.toml) in the root of the folder that you open with VS Code, it should automatically activate that already.

[image] davidanthoff: If there is a Manifest.toml (and a Project.toml ) in the root of the folder that you open with VS Code, it should automatically activate that already. Start VS code with Julia repl running, and the environment initialized …

A simple bit of code in the startup file will do the trick as far as automatically activating and instantiating the opened folder. https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/1622

Is it possible to start VS code with Julia repl running?

Tooling VS Code

PetrKryslUCSD August 23, 2020, 4:28pm 5

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