How to detect the VSCode fork?

[martin-braun]

I'm trying to integrate my NeoVim configuration into VSCode after integrating it into Windsurf (a popular VSCode fork). I can nicely differentiate between the forks in my keybindings.json (VSCode keyboard shortcuts) using the when parameter, however the same cannot be said about my lua NeoVim configuration.

vim.g.vscode equals to vscode no matter in which fork I am. I wonder if it is possible to get the binary name of the editor (code vs windsurf).

A possible work around is to exclusively launch from the terminal with some environment variable. I already have to do this to have required variables for some tokens that are used in some of my extensions (i.e. Deepl translator), but I kindly ask if there is a better way?

[justinmk]

Created a tracking issue:

• expose vscode.env.appName in vim.g.vscode (to detect the VSCode fork/flavor) #2496