Terminal changes C: to c: about terminal

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[zadjii-msft]

• Does this repro if the vintage "Windows Console Host" is set as your default terminal in the settings app?
• In a VS prompt, what is the output of set HOMEDRIVE & set SystemDrive?
• Same question, but in a normal CMD tab?
• Does anything look askew (DHowett EDIT: it said eschew) in the Environment Variables settings dialog/?

[mikedice]

In my Terminal app Windows Console Host is set as the Default Terminal Application

From VS2022 Command prompt in Terminal
c:\Users\mikedice\source\repos>set HOMEDRIVE
HOMEDRIVE=C:

c:\Users\mikedice\source\repos>set SystemDrive
SystemDrive=C:

From classic command prompt
C:\Users\mikedice>set systemdrive
SystemDrive=C:

C:\Users\mikedice>set homedrive
HOMEDRIVE=C:

I dumped all environment variables and I do see this:
VSCMD_START_DIR=c:\users\mikedice\source\repos
In fact this is the only place lower case c: is shown

And then I saw that VSCMD_START_DIR=c:\users\mikedice\source\repos was set in the terminal Command Line property: cmd /k "set VSCMD_START_DIR=C:\users\mikedice\source\repos & "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -startdir=auto -arch=x64 -host_arch=x64"
I think I remember now setting that so the vsdevcmd prompt lands where i want it to and in that Command Line I used lower case c:

Guess this issue can be resolved by design

[DHowett]

Ah! Thanks for following up.

I usually work around this with the -SkipAutomaticLocation argument to Enter-VsDevShell or the -startdir=none argument to vsdevcmd. That puts Terminal in charge of the starting directory, so you can use the normal Starting Directory setting.

We haven't done this by default for consistency with the existing Developer Shell shortcuts in the start menu.

I'll close this one out! Thanks!