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Open files from remote ssh host in VSCode

I'm using using VSCode Remote SSH from my laptop (Linux) to work on projects that resides on a Linux host.

If I open an internal terminal in VSCode I can open files from the host by doing code some_file.txt. I frequently want to be able to do the same from terminals that are not originating from VSCode.

Is there anyway to open files in the VSCode-server while connected to a standard (Non VSCode internal) terminal?

Solution

  • From another StackOverflow answer, I learned that if you open an integrated terminal and find the VSCODE_IPC_HOOK_CLI environment variable, and set it to the same value in the non-integrated terminal, then run code from the code server install directory ~/.vscode-server, it will work. That article didn't mention that you can have more than one install in the ~/.vscode-server directory. The current install can be extracted from the VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_MODE variable, it looks like this:

    $ echo $VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_NODE
/home/<user>/.vscode-server/bin/054a9295330880ed74ceaedda236253b4f39a335/node

    Just chop off the node and add bin, and so run something like

    $ /home/<user>/.vscode-server/bin/054a9295330880ed74ceaedda236253b4f39a335/bin/code myfile.txt