Identify Neovim inside VSCode

[adelarsq]

Would be nice to be possible to identify that the neovim instance is being used inside VSCode, so we can load plugins by demand.

Did try this config, but didn't work as expected:

if has('g:vscode_channel')
   let g:editor = 'vscode'
   ...
if g:editor !=# 'vscode'
    Plug 'https://github.com/nathanaelkane/vim-indent-guides'
endif

[asvetliakov]

@justinmk what is the correct way to set something before user config loads? Currently i'm setting vscode_channel var before ui_attach api call, but it doesn't seem to work

[justinmk]

That should work. Make sure you aren't using --headless

[adelarsq]

I notice that after the start from VSCode the variable is available. But on the neovim config loading phase isn't.

[asvetliakov]

@justinmk Not using headless but using -c to load vim support files. May be because of this? Perhaps i can just add --cmd to set some marker variable instead

[justinmk]

-c runs after user config. See :help -c . Use --cmd

[asvetliakov]

Once 0.0.40 released you can check with following:

if exists('g:vscode')
    " VSCode extension
else
    " ordinary neovim
endif