How to use Cmder in Visual Studio Code?

another solution is you can set your cmder location into new path

and just set in your settings.json

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
    "/k %CMDER_ROOT%\\vendor\\init.bat"
]

you can find it on cmder github issue

Another approach.

The Cmder team suggests prepending a ^ character before each space in your path, instead of using the 8dot3 naming approach.

Example:

{
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\Sysnative\\cmd.exe",
    "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
        "/k C:\\Program Files^ (x86)\\Cmder\\vendor\\init.bat"
    ]
}

Taken from official Cmder wiki:

Spaces in path

⚠ CAUTION: The command line interpreter in Windows has some issues with spaces in the path, such as C:\Program Files (x86)\Cmder. We do not recommended to install Cmder in a path that contains spaces.

Instead, we recommend installing Cmder in a path that does not contain any spaces, such as: C:\apps\Cmder or C:\tools\Cmder to avoid any conflicts with VS Code.

If you for some reason really need to launch Cmder from a path with spaces, you might need to prepend a ^ symbol before each space, such that C:\\Example Directory for Test\\Cmder will become C:\\Example^ Directory^ for^ Test\\Cmder in your settings.json file.

After scouring the Internet for answers, I couldn't find a solution, but I figured it out and thought I might post it here for others to see, as I've seen that people from different forums had the same question but there was no answer.

In Windows, there is a /X for the dir command, which states:

  /X          This displays the short names generated for non-8dot3 file
              names.  The format is that of /N with the short name inserted
              before the long name. If no short name is present, blanks are
              displayed in its place.

So, doing a dir /X command on C:\ displays the following:

C:\>dir /X
 Volume in drive C is OSDisk
 Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX

 Directory of C:\

...
08/17/2017  08:02 PM    <DIR>          PROGRA~1     Program Files
08/09/2017  03:58 PM    <DIR>          PROGRA~2     Program Files (x86)
...

You can use the directory short name PROGRA~2 to substitute Program Files (x86), and have the following settings in your settings.json for VS Code:

{
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\Sysnative\\cmd.exe",
    "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
        "/k C:\\PROGRA~2\\Cmder\\vendor\\init.bat"
    ]
}

Which does load Cmder successfully in the integrated terminal:

This is the new method to do that '2021'

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Step 1: Download Cmder.

Step 2: Save Cmder to C:\ drive

Step 3: Open Settings.json in VSCode (File - Preferences - Settings ...)

Step 4: Enter this parameters:

"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
    "Cmder": {
      "path": "${env:windir}\\System32\\cmd.exe",
      "args": ["/k", "C:\\cmder\\vendor\\bin\\vscode_init.cmd"]
    }
  },
  "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Cmder",