Use bash instead of Powershell in VS Code terminal

[sachrmed]

On Windows, selecting the nRF Connect terminal within VS Code seems to start up Powershell. Is there a way to configure it to use bash instead?

I'm currently just launching bash from the toolchain manager, but it would be nice to be able to easily use it from VS Code as well.

Thanks!

[Jared]

Hi,

What do you want to do from bash, use west?

If it's just starting bash then you can choose the terminal by clicking the arrow in the right of the terminal window:

regards

Jared

[sachrmed]

I'd like to have the same environment as when I choose "open bash" from the Toolchain Manager of nRF Connect Desktop. Essentially a bash shell with the nRF Connect environment set up.

I have several build scripts written in bash, but I also just prefer using bash to powershell.

In Linux, selecting the nRF Connect terminal option in VS Code does provide a bash shell with the nRF Connect environment ready to go. I'm hoping to achieve the same thing on Windows.

[Jared]

Hi,

Doesn't quite open bash but you're able to run west if you do: In vs code, press Ctrl+Shift+P and select 'nRF Connect: Open Toolchain Terminal Profile.

I guess you still want to start bash instead of cmd to run your bash scripts?

Still waiting for reply from our developers,

regards

Jared 

[sachrmed]

Thanks for checking!

Yeah, I'd still like it to start a bash shell so I can easily run the scripts.

Hopefully the developers can provide a solution.

In the mean time, I'll stick to a separate bash window from the Toolchain Manager.

[Jared]

From our VS Code extension devs:

When executing “nRF Connect: Open Toolchain Terminal Profile”, the user’s default terminal profile is used. 

So, to open a bash, users can change that profile, e.g. by using the “Terminal: Select Default Profile” command. If they select “Git Bash” there (assuming they are on Windows and have that installed) then they can launch a bash within VS Code which has the right env setup.

Everything is possible to configure in VS Code regarding shell, you can select which shell should be the default, you can use nRF Connect profile that applies the toolchain environment on top of the default shell.

 However there's a catch: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/200558

VSCode 1.85 broke custom execution when the default profile is altered, and all our build and flash tasks are based on this feature. Microsoft neglected to fix this so far,

[sachrmed]

Fantastic! Setting my default terminal to "Git Bash" worked!
Now when I select the nRF Connect terminal, it opens a Bash shell with the Zephyr environment set up.

Thanks very much!!

[Jared]

Perfect, I'll mark this as resolved then,

Have a good day,

regards

Jared