Saul Shanabrook

Today I finally grew tired of running activate jupyterlab-data-explorer ad nauseum, so I set up my fish shell to auto activate a conda environment, whenever you change directories, based on the name of the folder:

function __auto-conda --on-variable PWD --description 'Auto activate conda env based on directory name'
  status --is-command-substitution; and return
  set __env_name (basename $PWD)
  if test \( -d "/usr/local/miniconda3/envs/$__env_name" \) -a \( __env_name != "$CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV" \)
    conda activate "$__env_name"
  end
end

# run on startup as well
__auto-conda

It amazes me how long I have put up with this inconvenience!

This dovetails nicely with my last post on displaying your conda environment in the iTerm status bar.