Support cygwin in the default shell selector

[rajinder-yadav]

Issue Type: Feature Request

Cygwin shell is not supported in vscode, would like to see this made available.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.43.0-insider (e6a45f4, 2020-02-21T05:40:52.685Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.5.13-1-default

[IllusionMH]

Have you tried to add path to executable manually?

[Tyriar]

I tried adding cygwin to that dropdown a while ago but ran into problems as it needs special arguments to work and currently the "profiles" in the shell selector don't support args. See https://stackoverflow.com/q/46061894/1156119 for how to use it manually.

[rajinder-yadav]

@Tyriar Just a suggestion, maybe open a ticket requesting support for what you need to get cygwin working with vscode? I'm sure the cygwin team would welcome this.

I'll take a look at the link you provided, thanks.

[Tyriar]

@rajinder-yadav I don't think we need anything in particular, more of a problem on our end that the shell selector only sets the executable currently, not the args.

[rajinder-yadav]

@Tyriar the stackoverflow tip worked for me as a work-around thanks!

[TylerLeonhardt]

@meganrogge I noticed that cygwin isn't here:

but it is here:

is that expected? If so feel free to remove verification-found and mark as verified

[Tyriar]

@TylerLeonhardt that's by design, the thinking here being that cygwin wouldn't be used as often as the others so you need to explicitly add it.