Question: is there a way to set environment variables within debugger settings?

[s6mike]

I have a very long PATH and CPATH, which I'm copying and pasting into each launch.json configuration (of which I have quite a number).

Is there a way to set the PATH and CPATH once somewhere, perhaps in the extension settings? As far as I can see there is only 1 setting available.

That seems to be the way other debuggers handle the matter, though possibly there is another way to set environment variables for launch.json which I don't know about? (I'm still learning the ropes with VSCode).

(FYI, the reason the paths are so long is because I'm linking to code in my project plus dependencies installed in a virtual environment.)

Thanks! Great extension, just given you a good review :)

[tomblind]

There isn't another way to do this right now, but it seems like a pretty straight-forward feature to add.

[s6mike]

Thanks!

For now, I've learnt that you can pull arbitrary VSCode settings into launch.json (or tasks.json) like this:

"LUA_PATH": "${config:lua.debug.settings.path}",

In this case, using a setting I'd already configured for a different extension I'm no longer using.

I thought I'd be able to use {env:X} and neatly solve my problem but while this worked on tasks.json, couldn't get it to work in launch.json.