Support environment variables for paths in .code-workspace files

Issue Type

Feature Request

Description

I’m attempting to use { "path": "${env:APPDATA}/Code/User" } in my workspace to be able to easily open settings.json and keybindings.json as raw files (the custom panels take up too much space and I rarely need them) and it appears variables are not substituted when loading the workspace file.

VS Code Info

VS Code version: Code 1.20.1 (f88bbf9137d24d36d968ea6b2911786bfe103002, 2018-02-13T15:34:36.336Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.16299

[nghtstr]

@bpasero, here is a more realistic situation. You are part of a team, and you would like to share the workspace as a part of the GIT repository. Here is an example situation:

{
	"folders": [
		{
			"name": "React Application",
			"path": "."
		},
		{
			"name": "GO Server",
			"path": "../goserver"
		},
		{
			"name": "Database Models",
			"path": "../models-go"
		},
		{
			"name": "GoLang Utilities",
			"path": "../utils-go"
		},
		{
			"path": "${env:HOME}/.go/src/example.com/example/models-go",
			"name": "Models (testing)"
		}
	],
	"settings": {
		"git.ignoreLimitWarning": true
	}
}

Right now, the ${env:HOME} does not work, and I would love to see this actually work.

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