Open project from command line

[roaldarbol]

It would be great to be able to open a specific project from the command line, so having the positron CLI command. Essentially identical behaviour to code for VSCode. So positron . opens the present folder, positron my-project opens my-project.

[juliasilge]

You can already do this! Run this command one time:

And then the command will be on your path. You can do positron . if you are in the folder you want to use as a workspace, or positron my-project if you are one folder up.

[roaldarbol]

Ah, cool - thanks!🥳

[drmowinckels]

WHere does Positron install to, by default?

I cant use the solution here as I have stupid IT admin rights restricting me, so I'll need to fix this manually through my bash profile.

[juliasilge]

@drmowinckels It installs into whatever the "typical" place is for you and your OS; it is also the same place that VS Code installs, if that has been helpful for you when you set up VS Code. On my Mac, it is installed to the Applications folder.

[drmowinckels]

right, needed to do some digging, and after remembering its a clone of vscode (whose command line is code), I found it.

Just in case someone is looking to manually bind or alias. I have the following on my mac

alias positron="/Applications/Positron.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code"

[emilyriederer]

I'm just here to say thank you because I was pining for same and huzzah!