“Open in Visual Studio Code” in macOS context-menu

vscode-macos-context-menu.md

Open in Visual Studio Code

• Open Automator

• Create a new document

• Select Quick Action

• Set “Service receives selected” to files or folders in any application

• Add a Run Shell Script action

  • your default shell should already be selected, otherwise use /bin/zsh for macOS 10.15 (”Catalina”) or later
  • older versions of macOS use /bin/bash
  • if you're using something else, you probably know what to do 😉

• Set the script action to the following

  for f in "$@"; do
    open -a 'Visual Studio Code' "$@"
  done
  

• Set “Pass input” to as arguments

• Save as Open in Visual Studio Code

Keyboard Shortcuts

You can assign a global shortcut to run the services we just created

• Open “System Preferences”
• Select “Keyboard” then the “Shortcuts” tab
• In the left pane, click on “Services”
• In the right pane, scroll to “Files and Folders”
• Select “Open in Visual Studio Code” click “add shortcut”
• Select a shortcut

Edit Context Menu items

You might want to rename or edit the items we just created

• Activate Finder
• Click on “Finder” in the Apple menu, select “Services” then “Services Preferences”
• In the right pane, scroll to “Files and Folders” and scroll to the item you want to edit
• Right click the item and select “Open in Visual Studio Code”
• Edit and save

Alternatively, you can edit the workflow (e.g. ~/Library/Services/Open in Visual Studio Code.workflow) in your preferred text editor

I got help from a coworker and solved it. You have to select the quick action field.

This would be easier and worked for me:

Open Automator

Create a new document

Select Quick Action

It worked, thank you!

although there is probably very little practical impact, it would be better to replace, IMHO:

for f in "$@"; do
  open -a 'Visual Studio Code' "$@"
done

with

for f in "$@"; do
  open -a 'Visual Studio Code' "$f"
done

personally prefer $f without quotes, to open each folder as a seperate vscode window (rather than group them together as a workspace).

Those who prefer this way may try it out 😉

This would be easier and worked for me:

Open Automator

Create a new document

Select Quick Action

thanks it worked 👍

Lovely, thank you! <3

感谢您！！！
thx a lot！！！
@DaiZack

Is there any way we can make it a shortcut and use it from the touchbar ??

you can customize the touch bar to include a quick action button
once you tap it, the Open in Visual Studio Code option should be there.

DaiZack's solution seems easy and works well. Just to sing to the choir.

"You don't even go here"

This was really helpful, it also works perfect with PhpStorm.

for f in "$@"; do
  open -a 'PhpStorm' "$@"
done