Terminal selection? Problems with VS Code + Git Bash

[tbeason]

I am on Win10 and use VS Code with Git Bash set as my default terminal. I installed Quarto using the official msi installer, I installed the VS Code extension, and I also followed the posted instructions for setting up Jupyter.

If I open a Powershell terminal, it is able to find quarto and render documents as expected. However, Git Bash simply says

$ quarto
bash: quarto: command not found

or if I do ctrl + shift + k then I get

quarto preview hello.qmd --to pdf --no-browser --no-watch-inputs
ERROR: Jupyter kernel 'julia-1.7' not found.

I did not do anything special when I installed Python and R, and Git Bash finds those just fine. Quarto is invisible to it. If I run which quarto it says it can't find anything by that name but I see that /c/Users/beasont/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin is in fact on my path...

Made this a discussion instead of an issue as I am uncertain where the problem lies. Hoping someone can help.

[mcanouil]

On Windows, it is custom to call a software with its extension, i.e. quarto.cmd.
You can check the PATH to see if Quarto bin directory is in it.

[tbeason]

Alright so using quarto.cmd instead does indeed work! But why is that needed here when it is not for Julia, Python, R, etc...?

Yes Quarto is on the path.

So my next question then is how I can make it "just work" in VS Code? Would an ok solution be to define an alias such that calls to quarto become quarto.cmd? (and how would I do that safely?) Or can I tell VS Code to use Powershell for Quarto commands?

[mcanouil]

I do not have the latest version of Quarto on my W10 laptop but VSCode and extensions are up to date.

I am using the latest PowerShell 7.2 (not the native one which is 5.1; https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows?view=powershell-7.2) and it just works even without the .cmd part.

So it seems to me that your issue is your setup not the tools.

To note, I wouldn't use an emulated terminal especially on Windows 😅

[tbeason]

Right it works in PowerShell! Just not in Git Bash. Surely there is a way to tell VS Code to use PowerShell only for this project, so I will look into that.