How to Preview with Shortcut in an Activated Conda Environment?

[AdaemmerP]

Description

When I manually activate my Conda environment for Python in the terminal and run quarto preview my_doc.qmd, it works smoothly.

However, using the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + k fails because Quarto launches a new, non-interactive shell that does not inherit the activated environment. Is there a way to make the shortcut execution recognize and use my activated Conda environment?

I also added this in my yaml but with no effect:

jupyter:
  python: /opt/conda/bin/python 
  kernel: python3 

[mcanouil]

Shortcut for what? Quarto CLI does not have any shortcuts, so I'm guessing you are talking about an IDE, but which one? If VSCode/Positron/VSCodium/etc., then look at those IDE Python environment activation methods and settings.
Quarto does not and will not automatically activate any environment, so this needs to be done by something else like your IDE or yourself.

[AdaemmerP]

Sorry, missed that: I have this issue in particular with VS code and code server. But that shortcut exists in RStudio and Positron as well. Thanks for the info.

[mcanouil]

FYI, the VS Code documentation: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments

• Conda environments can't be automatically activated in the VS Code Integrated Terminal if the default shell is set to PowerShell. To change the shell, see Integrated terminal - Terminal profiles.

• You can manually specify the path to the conda executable to use for activation (version 4.4+). To do so, open the Command Palette (⇧⌘P) and run Preferences: Open User Settings. Then set python.condaPath, which is in the Python extension section of User Settings, with the appropriate path.