Support opening files passed as file descriptors similar to stdin

[septatrix]

What I mean by file descriptors are /proc/self/fd/11 (and /dev/fd/63) which are generated by zsh (and bash respectively) when executing commands like code <(echo Hello World).
As writing to these descriptors is not possible AFAIK these would have to be handled similar to stdin, i.e. generating a temporary file which gets filled with the content read.

Initially I was going to report --diff not supporting these (code --diff <(echo hello) <(echo world)) but I found out that vscode does not support these at all. I will open a separate issue for the diff tool as it does not even seem to support stdin.

[vscode-triage-bot]

This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[kingbuzzman]

Yes please! I was just trying to do this: code --diff <(git show origin/master:some/path/file.py) <(git show HEAD:some/path/file.py) and was deeply annoyed it didn't work. Nothing works when its a file descriptor it seems code <(git show origin/master:some/path/file.py)

I guess i'll just continue to use this vimdiff <(git show origin/master:some/path/file.py) <(git show HEAD:some/path/file.py)

[vscode-triage-bot]

This feature request has not yet received the 20 community upvotes it takes to make to our backlog. 10 days to go. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[vscode-triage-bot]

🙁 In the last 60 days, this feature request has received less than 20 community upvotes and we closed it. Still a big Thank You to you for taking the time to create this issue! To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!