💻 editors

Annotations about the code editors I use.

VS Code/Codium

The editor I use most of the time. Years of configuration tweaks and muscle memory over keyboard shortcuts!

Error "Cannot find runtime 'node' on PATH. Is 'node' installed?"

I had this error when I was trying to debug a Node.js project using VS Code's built-in debugger. It happens because VS Code is unable to find node in your $PATH. No news here, but I both my Bash and Zsh configured to add /usr/local/bin to my $PATH, but no luck so far.

I never managed to fix this bug - but I found a workaround so good that this solution becomes unnecessary: running VS Code as a subprocess of your current shell.

In practice, it's quite simple actually. Just run VS Code from your command-line instead of opening it directly. Go to your project directory and run code from it. Ex.:

cd path/your/project
code .

It opens VS Code with your project directory already loaded - but the important thing is that, since you ran it from your current shell session, it will inherint your current $PATH, and node (or in my case, nodemon) will be there. 🙂

Extension management from the command line

It's possible to manage VS Code extensions through the command line, using the following commands:

code --extensions-dir <dir>
    Set the root path for extensions.
code --list-extensions
    List the installed extensions.
code --show-versions
    Show versions of installed extensions, when using --list-extension.
code --install-extension (<extension-id> | <extension-vsix-path>)
    Installs an extension.
code --uninstall-extension (<extension-id> | <extension-vsix-path>)
    Uninstalls an extension.
code --enable-proposed-api (<extension-id>)
    Enables proposed API features for extensions. Can receive one or more extension IDs to enable individually.

Read more at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/extension-gallery

Neovim

Tips and tricks for the most insane code editor out there.

ctrlp

A Vim/Neovim plugin to open files with Ctrl+P and fuzzy search.

Invoke it project-wide using Ctrl+P or :CtrlP, or from a specific directory w/ :CtrlP [directory name].

Once it's open: