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I am trying to give visual-studio-code a go to see if it would be a good code editor for me. So I have it installed. However, I also already had/have Sublime Text 3 installed. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get vscode to run from the CLI/terminal.

Running:

code README.md

Opens up a README in sublime.

Yet when I do which code => /usr/bin/code => /usr/share/code/bin/code the files in /usr/share/code have license text files for VSCode:

$ head -3 /usr/share/code/resources/app/LICENSE.txt 
MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS
MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO CODE 
...

What I have tried:

I uninstalled vscode:

sudo apt remove --purge code
sudo apt install code

And yet running code someTextFile.txt (or /usr/bin/code or /usr/share/code/bin/code) still opens sublime instead of vscode.

How can I fix the command to allow me to run vscode to open code files from the CLI?

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  • Add the output of type -a code to the post, please
    – muru
    May 31, 2018 at 12:12
  • Thanks @muru That solves my problem, it is referencing a function still present somewhere: type -a code code is a function code () { command subl "$@" & disown } code is /usr/bin/code Wasn't aware of type -a command, thanks!
    – Kzqai
    Jun 1, 2018 at 14:19
  • Now I just have to track down where I have that function.
    – Kzqai
    Jun 1, 2018 at 14:19
  • Try superuser.com/a/229038
    – muru
    Jun 1, 2018 at 15:59
  • That's got it, it was a combination of an alias referencing code and a function masking that alias, make this an answer and I'll certainly accept it: run: make -a yourCommandHere to find out where the command is coming from, then to find where it is, if it is a function: shopt -s extdebug;declare -F yourFunctionHere;shopt -u extdebug
    – Kzqai
    Jun 2, 2018 at 12:14

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I was only able to find this due to the comments above for debugging commands. The source of this issue ended up being the following:

I had an alias that looked like this:

alias e="code"

Then later on I had a function that was mapping:

function e() { subl }

Which was overriding the alias. So a search for "code" found the alias that I expected, but since apparently functions get checked first, it was still calling for the function e instead of the alias.

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