Thanks for the feedback, I've added this to the project board.

A temporary (dirty) solution while @yaira2 is working on this:

Add a new registry key under Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall called Microsoft Visual Studio Code (in either the current user or local machine container). You can do this using the following command:

New-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

This will trick Files into thinking the regular VS Code is installed. Then, you must also ensure that the code command launches VS Code Insiders. I did this by creating a file called code.cmd with the following contents:

@echo off
setlocal
set VSCODE_DEV=
set ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\Code - Insiders.exe" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\out\cli.js" %*
endlocal

And adding that to my path.

I don't use VS Code very often; much more often I open the repository in GitExtensions. I think I'm not the only one. It would be great if known git GUIs were automatically detected and menu items were added, or at least this could be configured.

We have two potential approaches for this feature. The first is to provide a setting to change the default IDE. The other approach is to support multiple IDEs. I'd like to understand the specific use cases to ensure we get the basics right and avoid unnecessary complexity.

As a Jetbrains user, I'd very much want to see this option.

With regards to the approaches, I think the best route would be to have the IDE configurable on a per-project basis, with some default. This way I could open one project in Android Studio and another one in IntelliJ, for example. I'd say don't try to autodetect the IDE for a project.