Request: workspace setting to automatically reload .envrc whenever it changes

[alexwforsythe]

Actual behavior

Whenever I make a change to my workspace root's .envrc file and save it, I get this notification:

direnv: Your .envrc has changed. Would you like to allow it?

I can then click Allow or run direnv: allow the .envrc from the command palette to reload it.

Requested behavior

The README states:

When any files watches by direnv are modified the extension automatically reloads the environment.

It would be really convenient if, when I change the .envrc file, the extension automatically runs direnv: allow the .envrc for me instead of displaying the notification in the screenshot.

I can imagine that not all users want this behavior in every workspace, so this should be an optional setting that's disabled by default.

[mkhl]

I figured someone would ask for this, I'll look into it :)

[alexwforsythe]

Thanks! Since posting this issue, I've discovered we can use the direnv whitelist setting to achieve auto-allow behavior in the shell. I'm not sure if it works with other non-shell tasks in VSCode, but if so, maybe we could just disable the notification for whitelisted .envrc files.