How to Integrate babun shell in VS code

Question

I have tried changing the settings for "terminal.integrated.shell.windows" to babun mintty location. But the babun shell window opens separately and doesn't integrate with the VS code. Anyone knows how to achieve this?

Answer 1

After trying for 2 hours finally made it work.

Before reading my way of doing this, you might want to got through this issue first.

By default babun is installed in C:\Users\13000\.babun\. So we can configure it by overriding user setting in VS Code as:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Users\\YOURUSERNAME\\.babun\\cygwin\\bin\\zsh.exe",

After saving , reload the window and you are done.

You will get something like :

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

I was searching for any solution for this issue before and I could not find any. But I was curious how Babun itself run the command "Open Babun here" from right-click menu and noticed it runs this command:

C:\Users\YOURUSER\.babun\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/zsh.exe

I've tried setting mintty.exe as shell and using leading commands as shell arguments, but this method opens an external terminal. I've noticed this behavior is because using mintty.exe, so I replaced mintty.exe with env.exe itself. At last, these are the settings:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Users\\YOURUSER\\.babun\\cygwin\\bin\\env.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
  "CHERE_INVOKING=1",
  "/bin/zsh.exe"
]

Edit: This might not completely relate to this question, but because of having the similarity, I think it might worth mentioning.

During my search for a solution, I've seen many other questions about the same issue for integrating Atom's PlatformIO IDE Terminal package or JetBrain's IDEs with Babun's zsh.

In the case of Atom, setting the Shell Override to C:\Users\YOURUSER\.babun\cygwin\bin\env.exe and Shell Arguments to CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/zsh.exe opens zsh.exe as an integrated terminal in the project directory.

In the case of JetBrain, I've used WebStrom and this works:

cmd.exe "/k C:\Users\ehsan\.babun\cygwin\bin\env.exe CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/zsh.exe"

Answer 3

Just complementing the correct answer that Pramesh Bajracharya gave above, you can override user settings in VS Code opening the VS Code and going in:

File->Preferences->Settings

And then paste in the field shown in your right side (WORKSPACE SETTINGS):

{
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Users\\YOURUSER\\.babun\\cygwin\\bin\\zsh.exe"
}

More information can be found in https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal

Thanks Pramesh Bajracharya!