“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