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Ian Shirley
Ian Shirley

Reputation: 113

Bash terminal colors in integrated terminal in VS Code

I'm on a windows 10 machine and I recently installed VS Code to use instead of Sublime Text 3. I changed the integrated terminal in VS Code to default to git Bash. That is working just fine now but I seemed to have lost my color coding for files and directories. I tried adding eval "$(dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS)" to my .bash_profile but it still doesn't work in the integrated terminal, however if I open Bash externally all of my colors are still there.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 24080

Answers (5)

danielassayag
danielassayag

Reputation: 941

Use fish ! For Mac Users:

brew install fish

Upvotes: 0

Dylan B
Dylan B

Reputation: 1010

For MacOS, fire Terminal App, then :

nano .zshrc

#Add these lines

alias ls='ls --color' # list with color
alias la='ls -alF'    # list all

Command W, Y to save file

Upvotes: 0

Lucas Yang
Lucas Yang

Reputation: 31

Solve Windows vscode Open Git Bash No Color

  1. Download Ansicon

  2. After unzipping, rename this folder to ANSICON and move it to C:\ Program Files \.

  3. Modify the VSCode settings:

     // old config:
 {
     ...

     "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\ANSICON\\x64\\ansicon.exe",
     "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
         "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\sh.exe",
         "--login",
         "-i"
     ]
 }

 // new config with after 2021/05:

 {
     ...

     "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Git Bash",
     "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
         "Git Bash": {
             "path": "C:\\Program Files\\ANSICON\\x64\\ansicon.exe",
             "args": ["C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe", "--login", "-i"]
         }
     },
 }

  4. Reopen the terminal.

Upvotes: 3

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 922

I was able to get colors to work in my Bash integrated terminal in VSCode by configuring my C:\Program Files\Git\etc\bash.bashrc file. I found that simply using eval "$(dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS)" alone was not sufficient. At the top of my C:\Program Files\Git\etc\DIR_COLORS file I saw this:

# Configuration file for dircolors, a utility to help you set the
# LS_COLORS environment variable used by GNU ls with the --color option.

So I tested using ls --color and it worked! I then created the following aliases in bash.bashrc:

alias ls='ls --color' # list with color
alias la='ls -alF'    # list all

I also found that you can customize the colors (and composition) of the Bash prompt by editing the C:\Program Files\Git\etc\profile.d\git-prompt.sh file and including shopt -q login_shell || . /etc/profile.d/git-prompt.sh in bash.bashrc.

I can't explain why the ls alias is needed for the integrated terminal but now I'm happy since my colors now match the external terminal.

Upvotes: 9

Snackdex
Snackdex

Reputation: 742

VSCode team have removed customizing colors from user settings page. Currently using the themes is the only way to customize terminal colors in VSCode. For more information check out issue #6766.

Answer copied from : Color theme for VS Code integrated terminal

Upvotes: 1

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