Set Up Windows Terminal for Conda Bash

2021 December 15

When I'm using Windows I often find that I need to use different shells: PowerShell, bash with Conda set up, sometimes even cmd. I've found that Windows Terminal is convenient for this, but found the setup to be a bit tricky to get right. One big factor is that I also want these shells to have the Visual Studio environment correctly initialized, which has to happen in cmd because Windows is ridiculous. Here are the magic commands:

Visual Studio, Conda, and Powershell🔗

cmd.exe /K "call vcvars.bat && C:\Users\peter\miniforge3\Scripts\activate.bat && powershell"

Visual Studio, Conda, and Bash🔗

cmd.exe /K "call vcvars.bat && C:\Users\peter\miniforge3\Scripts\activate.bat && bash"

Note that on Windows, the git Conda package provides bash! The MSys2 package of Git is old and out-of-date. So you should install git but neither m2-git nor m2-bash.