Renaming the executable

[asunar]

I would like to start portable VS Code from the command line. For example I would like to start it with

code .

Renaming the exe to code caused an exception. Any ideas?

[nidunc]

Renaming the exe to code caused an exception. Any ideas?

Do you mean that you tried to rename Code.exe to just Code? I can see why that didn't work, Visual Studio Code probably depends on the main executable being called Code.exe.

There is one, albeit non-portable, way to achieve what you want (if I understood you correctly) - provided you have administrator access to the computer you're running VSCode on.

1. Go to the system environment variables
2. Add the directory which contains Code.exe to the PATH variable (see linked article for instructions)
3. Now you can type code in any command prompt (on the same computer) to start Visual Studio Code

Of course you should rename code back to Code.exe before actually trying to start VSCode this way.

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Disclaimer: I'm not the maintainer of this repository, but a mere contributor.

[asunar]

Does it work for you when change the name of the exe to code.exe? Yes, I meant I tried to rename it to code.exe.

[nidunc]

Do you mean you tried to rename the executable from Code.exe (with a capital C) to code.exe (all lower case letters)?