Docs regarding Cmder integration about cmder-site HOT 2 OPEN

Moved from cmderdev#15 here:

A couple of issues :

• init.bat by design used not to set the working directory correctly, which lead to many workarounds and issues

@echo off
SET CurrentWorkingDirectory=%CD%
SET CMDER_ROOT=C:\cmder (your path to cmder)
CALL "%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\init.bat"
CD /D %CurrentWorkingDirectory%

This workaround currently isn't needed, but the official VS Code documentation mentions it, which means we have to make sure init.bat can work without this (which we have), notify the VS Code guys and then link to the corresponding guides from the main website.

• There is the issue of Cmder being designed with ConEmu in mind, as stated by @daxgames. IMO we need to extend the logic of Cmder to be able to work without ConEmu. This means extended .hyper.js and VS Code settings.json support (which I'd like to work on) as well as a slim version of Cmder without ConEmu (which I'd also like to work on.)

• Hyper at the moment has some issues for bash & nano/vim on Git-for-Windows which Cmder uses (the problem seems to occur both using Cygwin & WSL) – this means having to work on Hyper to better support Cmder-based bash. That's not necessarily working on Cmder, but it helps the cause.

These require porting configuration including the tasks, path and monkai skin to the Hyper, VS Code and other Terminal hosts/IDEs. Most of these currently exist and is doable, but hey the sole purpose of Cmder is to gather them all and put 'em in a repo, otherwise what's the point of it? 😁 – and putting them in the repo is exactly what I plan to do.

So, if Cmder is able to run on ConEmu, Hyper and VS Code with the same or near the same user-experience, I intend to make it happen, document each step (especially for newbies, or users who just aren't comfortable spending time to configure it themselves) – which should be easy to follow and work, and link them on the main website.

from cmder-site.

Hopefully these will be merged into th Wiki as discussed in cmderdev/cmder#1751.

from cmder-site.