This is an experimental Home Manager module to enable management of several Visual Studio Code(-ish) editors with shared configs, extensions etc.

The code is adapted from Home Managers' vscode.nix to support multiple instances; it should work for any VSCode-derived editor that supports --user-data-dir and --extensions-dir arguments.

It works by creating a derivation consisting of an executable wrapper script calling the original program with the above arguments (and also by default on Linux a desktop item; if/when I find out how to make a Mac app bundle I'll do it as well), and exposing this derivation in home.packages instead of the editor package.

To use it, just add this flake to your Home Manager configuration's flake inputs, preferably configure appropriate follows, import and configure your instances.

For an example of how to configure the editors, look into example/vscode.nix, this is my configuration (somewhat censored).

I didn't really test mutable extensions nor profiles; they should work with one big caveat: some options are available both in main instance configuration and in profiles; if a profile named default exists, all of these options in main configuration will be silently ignored. Home Manager's vscode module uses renamed options, but these are not available in submodules (see NixOS/nixpkgs#96006).