[feature] match host operating system

[Merith-TK]

So I work on the same project with both windows and linux machines, the problem is that both have different command structures (linux uses $VAR and windows uses %VAR% for example)

I was hoping to be able to define an "OS LOCK" setting, where I can say "use this command for windows, and this command for linux"

[bmingles]

This is a good suggestion. Will consider how to add this in future release.

[Merith-TK]

Another reason for this request is that windows uses \ in file paths, as well as the notorious C:\Path drive mounts, while in linux \ is used as an escape character to allow for characters to be parsed as raw string and not format strings (commonly used in VAR="echo \"example\"" while windows does not,

[bmingles]

Yes, I think this would be a good addition. I’ve marked it as a future enhancement. Other vscode settings often include OS specific options. I’ll have to see how to best implememnt

[Ben-Voris]

A variation on a theme is settings.json that is used in both Cygwin and WSL. In this case, the problem is just the location of the shell.