Semi-automatic activation

[Evpok]

• I have searched the issues (including closed ones) and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• I have searched the documentation and believe that my question is not covered.
• I am willing to lend a hand to help implement this feature.

Feature Request

I really like the idea of linking directories to envs, but at the same time I don't always want to activate the linked env when I cd into a dir. It would be nice if there was way to manually activate the environment linked to by vf connect even with auto_activation disabled. This could take the form of a dedicated command, or just the behaviour of vf activate without specifying an env (look into VIRTUALFISH_ACTIVATION_FILE and activate the env you find there`.

[justinmayer]

Hi @Evpok. Environments shouldn't be automatically activated via cd if automatic activation is disabled. I don't have time to parse and understand what you mean, so it's important when filing issues to be really specific and unequivocally clear. With that in mind, can you elaborate?

[Evpok]

Hi @justinmayer, let me try to reformulate: I wish to have links between directories and environments without using automatic activation, which is currently not supported. The behaviour I am looking for is for vf activate to look for a .venv (or whatever vf connect creates) file in the current directory, and if there is one, to activate the corresponding environment.

[justinmayer]

So, to summarize, you want to save a few keystrokes by typing vf activate instead of vf activate (cat .venv). Do I have that right?

[Evpok]

More like vf activate (cat $VIRTUALFISH_ACTIVATION_FILE) but yes, that's the idea.

[justinmayer]

My suggestion would be to define an abbreviation, replacing vfa with your desired short-cut/macro:

abbr -a vfa vf activate (cat $VIRTUALFISH_ACTIVATION_FILE)

That way you get what you want in three keystrokes.

But if you want to submit a pull request that activates the relevant virtual environment when vf activate is invoked with no arguments and a $VIRTUALFISH_ACTIVATION_FILE is present in the current working directory, I can't think of any obvious impediments to merging it.

Thoughts?

[Evpok]

Right, I'll do both: start with the abbreviation and see if I can get a PR to work. Thanks!