Launching Terminal with PATH set

Indigo

I would like to add a button in the UI for each stack that will launch your choice of Terminal with a session where the PATH has been set to point at the services in that stack.

I'm interested in thoughts about how to handle stacks which have multiples of the same service. For example if you have two PHPs in your stack, which one should be in the PATH? About my only idea is to use the vertical position of the services in the rack; the higher one will be in the path, subsequent ones will not.

Another idea is that this button would be with each service rather than on the stack overview. In this case it would set that service first in the PATH, followed by all other services in the stack.

Secondly, is there anyone here with enough terminal knowledge to suggest a nice way to configure the PATH when launching a Terminal? I would want it to work with any Terminal you might choose, so it can't leverage specific features of (for example) iTerm.

pocahontasdividends

I would much more prefer if each one had a button in its actual view (not in the server rack) - that way there's no confusing magic behavior of reordering every single time I would want to use it with another service.

On linux at least you can just prepend the environment variables before the actual application name, does that possibly work on macOS too? I'm new to the mac environment.

Indigo

Good points; as a proof-of-concept I intend to put a "Launch in terminal" button somewhere on each Service's config pane. That service and all other services in the stack will be in the resulting $PATH. If there are other services in the stack of the same type (eg multiple PHPs), those will not appear in the $PATH. To access those, you'd switch to their respective service config pane and use the terminal button there.

pocahontasdividends

Does that approach still allow for one to e.g. have multiple terminals open, with different php versions, without the php path being yanked away - if one clicks another "launch in terminal" on another pane?

Indigo

Yes, absolutely. This is a use-case I need for myself actually; I have a stack with two PHPs in it, and regularly need a terminal with one and another terminal with the other PHP, both at the same time. The PATH config is per-terminal-session.

Indigo

Just a heads-up that shell integration has been implemented in beta 15. Check out the docs for more info.

The initial implementation simply uses the first of each service type. So for example if your stack has two PHP's, only the first (the highest in the stack) will be available on the command line. We're working on an upcoming UI to create "terminal presets" which will allow you to pick and choose.