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Yes, most Nix users employ https://direnv.net or the equivalent for your IDE of choice. Emacs for instance has https://github.com/purcell/envrc which set per-buffer variables.

More background in https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/Nix.

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That said, I believe VSCode (and some IDEs) don't necessarily support direnv in all cases.. e.g. you'd want direnv to load before other plugins (and update the PATH), but might not get that.

If you start vscode with `code .` after entering the nix shell it will work in most cases.

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