Summary

The init, activate, and deactivate have a number of outstanding issues that are reoccurring and/or high-time it gets addressed.

Linked Issues & PRs

Proper argparsing for conda activate et al. and general implementation cleanup

• Proposal - Change output message of 'conda activate'  #6249
• conda shell.posix activate/deactivate should write out to fd 3, not stdout #11748
• Remove custom argparse aliases #11747
• conda --help does not show conda activate and conda deactivate info #6353
• conda.shell commands should be migrated to main argument parser #12569

Fully remove the deprecated conda.cli.activate

• Updating activate/deactivate syntax in README #7613
• Remove deprecated conda.cli.activate #11309

Resolve outstanding conda init items

• conda init should auto-detect the files that need modified #7730
• conda init beta modifications #7781
• conda program not working with ksh #7843
• conda init undocumented arguments #8135

Resolve outstanding subshell items

• Conda command not exported to subshells #7753
• Can't execute conda activate from bash script #7980
• "conda activate" can't activate or switch environments during a job submitted to a queuing system, even though passing full environment_variables. #8536
• Your shell has not been properly configured to use 'conda activate'. #10142

Return codes

• Conda activate returns non zero status if hashing is disabled #7995
• conda activate return True in Windows 10 #10182
• conda hooks disturb PowerShell error status #11058

csh/tcsh

• tcsh PATH vs PATH vs path #8883
• Modifying PATH works in env_vars.sh but not in env_vars.csh #9304
• conda command changes PATH in csh #10707

cmd.exe

• If conda is installed in a non-base environment, Windows CMD will treat that environment it as base once active #11519

POSIX

• miniconda on Windows has newline issues when run from msys2 zsh #13391