Pixi VSCode extension

[pavelzw]

I think a Pixi VSCode extension that automatically sets your python interpreter if python is in the environment (and maybe also has some other features) would be awesome.

[pavelzw]

There is the possibility to choose <path-to-project>/.pixi/env/bin/python3.11 as python interpreter but VSCode automatically recognizes it as a conda python and tries to run conda activate <path-to-project>/slim-trees/.pixi/env on startup.

[ruben-arts]

@pavelzw that would be really nice indeed! What other features would that include? We don't have a lot of experience with write plugins for IDE's so any input would be welcome!

[pavelzw]

Maybe some tooltips in the pixi.toml?

I could also imagine people wanting to execute pixi commands using this thing (I don't know what it's called 😅)

Maybe also on the side bar an overview of installed packages

[pavelzw]

Also having something like this button in the pixi.toml would be great

Also, you can hover in vscode over dependencies in the package.json to get some package metadata (and the newest version). I think that would also be nice for the pixi.toml

[pavelzw]

Another issue I stumbled on while using pixi with VSCode is that VSCode tries to automatically activate the conda environment.

❯ source activate
source: no such file or directory: activate
❯ conda activate <path-to-project>/.pixi/env
zsh: command not found: conda

The solution is to uncheck this box.

[Wumpf]

I could also imagine people wanting to execute pixi commands using this thing (I don't know what it's called 😅)

Not having a lot of experience either, but I believe this would be a Task Provider:
https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/task-provider

(and yes this would be great to have :))