cdb - Code DeBugger

This is the extension to launch debug sessions in VSCode directly from terminal.

Rationale

There's some demand for an option to launch debug sessions in VSCode from terminal rather than setting up specific debug configurations even for simple, one-off debugging tasks.

This extension provides own shell command - 'cdb' - that aims to substitute the missing but so much desired '--debug' option for the 'code' command.

Usage

After installing the extension, there's a new command available in command palette - "CDB: Install shell command" which does exactly that. The 'cdb' is installed into '/usr/local/bin' directory - the same directory where 'code' command is installed.

After installing you can start debuggig by running cdb <debug targer> <arguments>, e.g. cdb python -m my_module arg1 arg2. At the moment only Python debugging is supported, e.g.:

• cdb /my/python/distro/python -m foo.bar --baz - starts debugging of a python module
• cdb python some/script.py --arg - starts debugging of a python script/file
• cdb some/script.py - same as above but shorter

More details on supported arguments and options can be found running cdb without arguments.