#Windows vim open in terminal windows#
When it comes to wsltty you can go to C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\wsltty in Windows explorer and see a bunch of files related to this terminal.
Determining Which Flags Your Terminal Supports We haven’t enabled that mode yet so you’ll get an error. In the case of wsltty, the terminal we’re actually running is mintty, but it has a WSL mode. After running it, you should see a terminal window pop open. You can verify it works by copying your path and then hitting Win + R to launch the Windows command runner, and then paste it in. That path is going to be different for each terminal so if you’re using a different terminal you’ll need to figure out where yours is located. You will want to replace Nick with your Windows user name. The path to this terminal can be found at C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe. It doesn’t have the lowest input latency like the default ubuntu.exe terminal, but the hot keys for adjusting font sizes on the fly makes it a win for me as someone who creates videos. Nowadays I am using wsltty as my WSL terminal of choice. The Absolute Path to Your Terminal’s Binary Determining which flags your terminal supportsġ.The absolute path to your terminal’s binary.3 components to launching and running a WSL command: This would be the command to run after selecting the menu item. So if you don’t use the same terminal as me, then all you have to do is adjust a few flags for your specific terminal, and when it comes to launching Vim, you could easily replace that with whatever app you want to launch instead.īefore we create the right click menu item, we need to come up with the command to run. The cool thing about this strategy is it will work for all terminals and all programs you want to launch. That’s what we’re going to cover in this article. With Vim, it’s a little more tricky to set up because it involves launching your WSL terminal, running a bash command and also transforming the Windows file path so it works inside of WSL.
VSCode has a menu item added where you can right click a file and then open it with VSCode and that’s exactly what I wanted to replicate with the new set up. Since I spend most of my time in a terminal, I do most of my file browsing there too with a tool called ranger, but every once in a while I find myself in Windows explorer browsing through files and I want to be able to open a text file with Vim. It’s the terminal version of Vim, rather than running GVim directly from within Windows.
#Windows vim open in terminal code#
I recently switched to using Vim as my primary code editor, and it’s currently running directly inside of WSL. Quick Jump: Putting Together a Command to Run | Creating the Right Click Menu Item | Launching WSL Programs as Custom Shortcuts Updated on February 26th, 2019 in #dev-environment Launching WSL Programs from a Right Click Windows Menu A common use case for this would be opening a specific file with terminal Vim by right clicking a file in Windows explorer.
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