From the course: Learning Visual Studio Code (2017)

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Using the command line

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Using the command line

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- [Instructor] The next thing that I want to show you is how to set up your environment so that you can launch a visual studio code from the command prompt. Now if you're on a Windows machine you should be fine to start that once you've installed it. All you need to do is go to your command prompt, type in code, and hit enter. Now I'm on a Mac so I'm going to go ahead and set it up first. I want to go ahead and show you where to take a look of what we need to do. If we go to the visual studio code website and you click on documents and then on the left-hand side choose set up, then Mac, you'll see exactly the sets that you need to take care of in order to set your environment up. All we really need to do is type in shell command in our command palette. To bring up the command palette we'll just need to press shift, command P. And the F1 key works just as well. If you're on a Windows machine the command key is equal to the Windows key. Shift, command P, and I will type in shell…

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