Support `spyder path/to/dir`?

[paugier]

Visual Studio Code can open a directory with:

cd dev/fluidsim
code .

When one does the same with Spyder (spyder .), one gets

To open /home/users/me/dev/fluidsim as a project with Spyder, please use spyder -p ".".

It seems to me that this behavior is not very useful.

When a user is in a directory and runs spyder ., there is a high probability that she wants to "open this directory". It seems to me that Spyder does not have this concept of "opening a directory" but works with "projects". Then, Spyder should then open the local project if it exists or propose to create a new project if it does not exist.

[ccordoba12]

Hey @paugier, thanks for reporting. You said:

It seems to me that Spyder does not have this concept of "opening a directory" but works with "projects".

That's right, we don't support this functionality in way VSCode implements it.

Then, Spyder should then open the local project if it exists or propose to create a new project if it does not exist.

That's exactly what the -p command line option does. We just prefer to be explicit about it. Given that, I don't know if there's something else we should do here.