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Editing M2 on Visual Studio Code, anyone?
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trijezdci
Jun 12, 2018, 7:12:55 AM6/12/18
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Does anyone have a Modula-2/Oberon/Pascal syntax specification file for Visual Studio Code to do syntax highlighting?
Chris Burrows
Jun 12, 2018, 8:29:19 AM6/12/18
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On Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 8:42:55 PM UTC+9:30, trijezdci wrote:
> Does anyone have a Modula-2/Oberon/Pascal syntax specification file for Visual Studio Code to do syntax highlighting?
My understanding is that VS Code uses TextMate-compatible syntax specification files. Google modula2.tmLanguage or oberon.tmLanguage for some example specification files.
> Does anyone have a Modula-2/Oberon/Pascal syntax specification file for Visual Studio Code to do syntax highlighting?
There are also a number of ready-made Oberon / FreePascal / Delphi VS Code extensions available in the VS Code marketplace.
When evaluating them I recommend using a simple test that we used when looking for Oberon syntax-editing specifications to use in our CPIde and Astrobe editors. i.e. can it handle nested comments?
If you have a working example, open a large file and insert '(*', or maybe '{' (for Delphi / FreePascal) at some arbitrary point. If it can't handle that then there is not much point looking any further.
Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com
trijezdci
Jun 19, 2018, 9:52:42 AM6/19/18
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On Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:29:19 UTC+9, Chris Burrows wrote:
> > Does anyone have a Modula-2/Oberon/Pascal syntax specification file for Visual Studio Code to do syntax highlighting?
>
> My understanding is that VS Code uses TextMate-compatible syntax specification files. Google modula2.tmLanguage or oberon.tmLanguage for some example specification files.
Thanks. According to the information I have, VS Code uses JSON files. Even so, I have a complete set of TM specs for PIM, ISO and R10
> > Does anyone have a Modula-2/Oberon/Pascal syntax specification file for Visual Studio Code to do syntax highlighting?
>
> My understanding is that VS Code uses TextMate-compatible syntax specification files. Google modula2.tmLanguage or oberon.tmLanguage for some example specification files.
https://github.com/m2sf/modula2.tmbundle/tree/master/Syntaxes
but VS Code does not seem to recognise them.
Then again, my .vscode directory happens to be completely empty and I wonder where MSFT has hidden all the default language specs. As usual, the MSFT online documentation is written only for Windows. The .vscode directory is empty. I have done a global search, I can't find the files.
Chris Burrows
Jun 19, 2018, 5:56:51 PM6/19/18
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On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 11:22:42 PM UTC+9:30, trijezdci wrote:
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> Then again, my .vscode directory happens to be completely empty and I wonder where MSFT has hidden all the default language specs. As usual, the MSFT online documentation is written only for Windows. The .vscode directory is empty. I have done a global search, I can't find the files.
On my system the extensions (and consequently the *.tmlanguage files) are stored in the following folder tree:
>
> Then again, my .vscode directory happens to be completely empty and I wonder where MSFT has hidden all the default language specs. As usual, the MSFT online documentation is written only for Windows. The .vscode directory is empty. I have done a global search, I can't find the files.
Program Files (x86)\
Microsoft Visual Studio\
2017\
Community\
Common7\
IDE\
Extensions\
uhuqfcub.t3o\
StarterKit\
Extensions
Alternatively search for *.tmLanguage in the 'Program Files (x86)' folder tree,
Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
trijezdci
Jun 21, 2018, 3:01:12 AM6/21/18
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On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 06:56:51 UTC+9, Chris Burrows wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 11:22:42 PM UTC+9:30, trijezdci wrote:
> >
> > Then again, my .vscode directory happens to be completely empty and I wonder where MSFT has hidden all the default language specs. As usual, the MSFT online documentation is written only for Windows. The .vscode directory is empty. I have done a global search, I can't find the files.
>
> On my system the extensions (and consequently the *.tmlanguage files) are stored in the following folder tree:
>
> Program Files (x86)\
Thanks, but that looks like Windows to me. I don't use Windows and on my system the folder hierarchy looks nothing even remotely like it.
> On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 11:22:42 PM UTC+9:30, trijezdci wrote:
> >
> > Then again, my .vscode directory happens to be completely empty and I wonder where MSFT has hidden all the default language specs. As usual, the MSFT online documentation is written only for Windows. The .vscode directory is empty. I have done a global search, I can't find the files.
>
> On my system the extensions (and consequently the *.tmlanguage files) are stored in the following folder tree:
>
> Program Files (x86)\
Like I said, I did a global search and there are no tmLanguage files anywhere (other than the Modula-2 ones I wrote myself which are in my development folder).
Marco van de Voort
Jun 21, 2018, 4:44:52 AM6/21/18
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On 2018-06-21, trijezdci <trij...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, but that looks like Windows to me. I don't use Windows and on my system the folder hierarchy looks nothing even remotely like it.
(moreover, it probably wasn't VS /code/, just proper native VS (community edition)
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> Thanks, but that looks like Windows to me. I don't use Windows and on my system the folder hierarchy looks nothing even remotely like it.
Chris Burrows
Jun 22, 2018, 4:29:17 AM6/22/18
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trijezdci
Jun 22, 2018, 9:40:51 AM6/22/18
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On Friday, 22 June 2018 17:29:17 UTC+9, Chris Burrows wrote:
> > (moreover, it probably wasn't VS /code/, just proper native VS (community edition)
>
> Yes - that makes more sense. I had another look on my system and the VS Code extensions are stored in the <User folder>\.vscode\extensions folder. However, only the ones I have added are visible there. And, yes, they are javascript / json files.
Indeed, I have a ~/.vscode/extensions directory but like I said, its empty and I can't find any files anywhere for the languages that come with VS Code.
> > (moreover, it probably wasn't VS /code/, just proper native VS (community edition)
>
> Yes - that makes more sense. I had another look on my system and the VS Code extensions are stored in the <User folder>\.vscode\extensions folder. However, only the ones I have added are visible there. And, yes, they are javascript / json files.
Chris Burrows
Jun 22, 2018, 7:15:02 PM6/22/18
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On Friday, June 22, 2018 at 11:10:51 PM UTC+9:30, trijezdci wrote:
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> Indeed, I have a ~/.vscode/extensions directory but like I said, its empty and I can't find any files anywhere for the languages that come with VS Code.
On my Windows system they are located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\extensions folder subtree. I'm surprised that a system-wide search on your system didn't find any related .json files. Maybe a Linux / MacOS user here can throw some light on this?
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> Indeed, I have a ~/.vscode/extensions directory but like I said, its empty and I can't find any files anywhere for the languages that come with VS Code.
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