Support for VSCode variables and arguments when defining Additional Exe Paths
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- powershell, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- devtools
Research direction
Start by locating the implementation of the PowerShell Additional Exe Paths setting in the VS Code extension and review how it currently handles absolute paths. Determine how VS Code predefined variables and executable arguments should be represented, then verify that the setting resolves variables and accepts arguments such as -NoLogo, -NoExit, and -Command.
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Summary
The PowerShell Additional Exe Paths setting only accept absolute path. This feature request is about getting that setting to resolve vscode's predefined variables and to accept arguments such as -NoLogo, -NoExit, and -Command.
Proposed Design
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- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 1.9k
- Forks
- 548
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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