Switch to the folder of open file in VS code

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Is there a command to switch to the folder of the current file in VS code?

I can see that there is a command to copy the name of the current file,
but at least on Windows that path is unusable in Julia since it has single
backslashes.

2

What do you mean to switch to the folder? Do you mean cd in the terminal/Julia, or reopen the whole workbench at a given folder? To do the latter, I use Open Folder Context Menus for VS Code - Visual Studio Marketplace – right click the folder in the file tree, “reopen workbench here”, and VSC reloads with the scope narrowed to just that folder.

3

Yes, change the current folder in Julia to the folder of the viewed file. I do not want to change the current env when doing this.

4

Are you looking for something different from cd(@__DIR__)?

5

If I had the code cd(@__DIR__) in the open file, I could evaluate it to switch the folder.
Otherwise I don’t see how this would help. What did you have in mind?

6

I’m not sure what behavior you’re looking for - a keyboard shortcut? You can use the raw_str macro with Windows filepaths to avoid escaping backslashes. How about cdfile(fname) = cd(dirname(fname)) in your startup.jl, then shift-alt-c to copy the current file’s path to the clipboard, then cdfile(raw"<ctrl-v>")?

7

Excellent idea with the raw string. My solution is

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Thanks!

8

Note that in Emacs,

https://github.com/tpapp/julia-repl/

has julia-repl-cd, bound to C-c C-p. I generally find this useful to eg run parts of a test suite.

9

It might not be exactly what you are looking for but hear me out.

I usually browse using the explorer. There you have the option to open powershell (or cmd) at your path. In the shell you can type code . which opens the folder in vs code.

I do this since opening a file eg. code foo.jl does not work properly with the vs code for julia plugin.

10

The proper solution is to add a command and context menu entry to cd to the current file; we’ll get to adding that at some point in the near future, I hope.

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In the meantime, I am using the following solution:

    {
        "key": "ctrl+alt+enter",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence",
        "args": {
          "text": "cd(\"${fileDirname}\")\ninclude(\"${fileBasename}\")\n"
        },
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },

The Julia REPL should be open.