Cmder in Code

How to make VisualCode/Codium/Antigravity/Cursor use Cmder as the shell.

Quick post - I’m using Windows again at work, and I want/need Cmder. Yes, PowerShell is there … it’s just funny looking and slow.¹ So this blast of a guide is how to fixit.

Once you have Codium and Cmder installed …

You need to create a new terminal profile, tell it to use cmd.exe and to run vendor/init.bat on startup.

1. Launch Codium
2. CTRL+J ande selecte the TERMINAL tab
3. next to the little + open the dropdown and select “Configure Terminal Settings”
4. The settings section has … stuff … scroll around and click/select “Edit in settings.json”
5. Add the following sections (adjust) the .bat path

     "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
       ...
       "cmder": {
         "path": "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\cmd.exe",
         "args": [
           "/K",
           "C:\\find\\your\\cmder\\install\\and\\vendor\\init.bat"
         ]
       },
       ...
     },
     "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "cmder"
   

6. re-check the terminal panel; cmder should be an option now, and you can use it - right?