Some VS Code settings for debugging VisiData

README.md

VS Code's Python extension does a lovely job of debugging VisiData. I run it one of two ways:

• When I'm working on a specific task, I add a specific run string to launch.json to start it. I typically run VisiData inside the integrated terminal.
• For more ad-hoc/exploratory stuff, I'll start VisiData from tmux and use VS Code's process picker to attach it.

Key pieces that need to be in place for this to work:

• Have VisiData and all dependencies installed into a virtual environment, and activate that virtual environment in VS Code.
• Make sure VisiData is installed with -e so your breakpoints work.

launch.json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Python: vd undo testing",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/bin/vd",
            "args": [
                "-p",
                "py-ctx-mgrs3.vd"
            ],
            "console": "integratedTerminal"
        },
        {
            "name": "Python: vd big jsonl",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/bin/vd",
            "args": [
                "-f",
                "pandas",
                "~/code/ctxmgr-analysis/py-ctx-mgrs3.jsonl"
            ],
            "console": "integratedTerminal"
        },
        {
            "name": "Python: vd",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/bin/vd",
            "args": [
                "-f",
                "pandas",
                "sample_data/benchmark.csv"
            ],
            "console": "integratedTerminal"
        },
        {
            "name": "Python: vd attach",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "attach",
            "processId": "${command:pickProcess}"
        }
    ]
}