IDEs and Text Editors

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a text and source code editor. It features syntax highlighting, code folding, terminal output window, and more. To add the MSYS2 terminal profile in Sublime Text, please follow these steps:

• Install Terminus package using Package Control.

• In the menu bar, select Preferences > Package Settings > Terminus > Settings option. This will open Terminus.sublime-settings file in separate Sublime Text window with two panes.

• In the right pane, add the following configuration for UCRT64.

• Change the command options as usual to use other terminal environments. If the Terminus.sublime-settings is not empty append the above section after others.

{
  "shell_configs": [
    {
      "name": "UCRT64",
      "cmd": [
        "cmd.exe",
        "/c",
        "C:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64"
      ],
      "env": {},
      "enable": true,
      "platforms": ["windows"]
    }
  ]
}

• Now the UCRT64 environment can be opened like any other shell in Sublime Text. Press Ctrl + Shift + P > Terminus: List shells > UCRT64 > Open in tab or pane.

Visual Studio Code

Add these lines to your settings.json:

{
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
        "MSYS2 UCRT": {
            "path": "cmd.exe",
            "args": [
                "/c",
                "C:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Now the MSYS2 UCRT profile is available when launching a terminal.

Zed

Zed is a text and source code editor. Its syntax highlighting and source parsing is based on tree-sitter library. Editor uses Vulkan as GUI backend to have highest performance among other editors. Zed package provides zeditor CLI installed under bin/ directory and zed-editor executable installed under lib/zed/ directory. To use MSYS2 shell in integrated terminal, press Ctrl + , to open settings, then put these lines in the opened file

{
  "terminal": {
    "shell": {
      "with_arguments": {
        "program": "cmd.exe",
        "args": ["/c", "C:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd", "-defterm", "-here", "-no-start", "-ucrt64"]
      }
    }
  }
}

Now UCRT64 shell will be opened if you press Ctrl + ~.