Select and Run Without Debug

Pick a launch configuration and run it without debugging, the same way the built-in Debug: Select and Start Debugging command starts it with debugging.

Open the Command Palette, run Debug: Select and Run Without Debug and choose a configuration.

Features

• Configurations and compounds from launch.json, .code-workspace files and user settings
• Multi-root workspaces: each configuration shows the folder it comes from
• Recently run configurations are listed first
• Debug: Run Last Without Debug runs the most recently run configuration again, without the picker
• presentation works like in the built-in picker: configurations are sorted by group and order, groups are separated, and ones with "hidden": true are not listed

Keyboard shortcuts

Open Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON) and add, for example:

[
  {
    "key": "ctrl+alt+f5",
    "command": "select-and-run-without-debug.activate"
  },
  {
    "key": "ctrl+alt+shift+f5",
    "command": "select-and-run-without-debug.runLast"
  }
]

To run a specific configuration without the picker, pass its name in args:

{
  "key": "ctrl+alt+1",
  "command": "select-and-run-without-debug.activate",
  "args": "Server"
}

If several folders of a multi-root workspace have a configuration with that name, add the folder as the picker shows it next to the name (workspace for configurations from the .code-workspace file, user settings for ones from user settings): "args": { "name": "Server", "folder": "backend" }.

Known issues

VS Code can start only compounds from launch.json (see microsoft/vscode#109083), so compounds from a .code-workspace file or user settings are started by the extension itself. It supports configurations, stopAll and preLaunchTask, with these differences from VS Code:

• A background preLaunchTask (a watch task with isBackground) is not waited for: extensions can't tell when it is ready, so the configurations start right after the task.
• A preLaunchTask counts as failed only by its exit code, problems found by its problem matcher are not taken into account.

Requirements

VS Code 1.90 or newer.

Release notes

See CHANGELOG.md.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm test

Press F5 in VS Code to run the extension in a new window.