VS Code cask brew can't see user fonts

[joedborg]

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Description of issue

I had VS Code installed via the DMG from Microsoft. Changed this to brew and now I cannot set the editor font to anything within ~/Library/Fonts. E.g. "Source Code Pro" or "Fira Code" (both installed via brew.

Output of your command with --verbose --debug

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Output of brew cask doctor

==> Homebrew-Cask Version
Homebrew-Cask 1.2.4
caskroom/homebrew-cask (git revision ae877; last commit 2017-07-20)
==> Homebrew-Cask Install Location
<NONE>
==> Homebrew-Cask Staging Location
/usr/local/Caskroom
==> Homebrew-Cask Cached Downloads
~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask (19 files, 1.2GB)
==> Homebrew-Cask Taps:
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask (3656 casks)
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-fonts (1107 casks)
==> Contents of $LOAD_PATH
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cask/lib
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin16
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0/universal-darwin16
/Library/Ruby/Site
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin16
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/universal-darwin16
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin16
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/universal-darwin16
==> Environment Variables
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
PATH="~/Library/Go/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/scm"
SHELL="/usr/local/bin/fish"

[commitay]

now I cannot set the editor font to anything within ~/Library/Fonts.

Homebrew-Cask installs the Microsoft DMG, we don't set any options.

[joedborg]

@commitay okay but if I revert back to manual DMG and use the same config file, it works. It's only via brew that this doesn't.

[commitay]

It's only via brew that this doesn't.

I've tried this in a clean VM, running brew cask install visual-studio-code and brew cask install font-source-code-pro, setting "editor.fontFamily": "SourceCodePro" works for me.

[joedborg]

@commitay okay, thanks, must be something wrong with my brew setup then.

[joedborg]

@commitay et. al. this is why microsoft/vscode#13366