Is it possible to configure Babun/ZSH for the integrated terminal on Windows?

[rfgamaral]

This is "working":

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

The only problem is that a new window is opened instead of the integrated terminal.

The command and arguments were taken from here.

Does anyone if it's possible to have the ZSH shell on the integrated terminal and on Windows?

[rfgamaral]

I went another route and installed Cygwin with ZSH and Oh My Zsh and configure VS Code like this:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Cygwin\\bin\\zsh.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
    "-lic",
    "cd $OLDPWD; exec zsh"
]

For now this is working nicely and it's probably a better a option than Babun which hasn't been updated in a while.

Feel free to close this if no longer relevant...

[rfgamaral]

Updating my solution about... It works most of the time, but in some situations $OLDPWD might not have the expected value.

For instance, after running some commands (I noticed this by running antigen reset) in the terminal, you close it and reopen it, the $OLDPWD might have a different value and not the root project folder as expected.

[Tyriar]

Good to hear you got it working. This might be useful for you as well #14977

[rfgamaral]

@Tyriar The solution on that issue didn't work for zsh instead of bash. The terminal opens and immediately closes. Anyway to debug this?

[Tyriar]

@rfgamaral no way to debug currently, an immediate close typically means if you ran the command in an external terminal it would exit immediately as well.

[rfgamaral]

@Tyriar The following worked:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["/bin/xhere", "/bin/zsh"]

Just started bash.exe instead of zsh.exe :)

[prameshbajra]

Is it only me who didn't have do do much. I just did this:

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

and it works fine. Or is it due to recent updates?

[gtdminh]

hey, i tried following to run bash in current open folder
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Cygwin\\bin\\zsh.exe", "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["-lic", "cd $OLDPWD; exec bash"]
it works perfectly