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Open with Code

Turned out I didn’t have “Open with Code” set up this entire time. I had to right-click within a folder, “Open in Git Bash here”, then code ..

Setup

To get “Open with Code”, I had to reinstall¹, and make sure to check the following:

The default terminal was PowerShell. I switched it to WSL with Select Default Profile².

WSL

This runs on my Windows host. But VS Code allows me to connect to it as a remote window. When connected this way, everything I do in VS Code will execute in the WSL environment³.

After opening a folder for the first time, I left-click VS Code on my taskbar, drag up, and select what I’m looking for from the Recent Folders.

1. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63714 ↩

2. https://stackoverflow.com/a/67501013 ↩

3. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl#_open-a-remote-folder-or-workspace ↩

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