[Visual Studio Code][Beta] TwiddlyWiki5 Syntax Highlighting for VSCode!

[Joshua Fontany]

Hi!

I've thrown together a quick extension for Visual Studio Code to enable syntax highlighting. I have not yet added it to the MS Marketplace, so you cannot find it through VSCode's Extensions tab quite yet...

Find the github repo here:

https://github.com/joshuafontany/VSCode-TW5-Syntax

Clone it to your Extensions folder as described here: https://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/extensions/install-extension/

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I use Bob on Node.js and author plugins as folders separate from my tiddlywiki and wikis directories. This means I am often tweaking or editing UI tiddlers, etc, etc inside of plugins while the server is down, then restart it to run tests, etc. Syntax highlighting is going to be a huge benefit to this workflow.

At this time I am mainly relying on a "named" syntax-highlighiting grammar built for the Atom text editor. This grammar is fairly well developed, but can totally be improved as I learn more about syntax highlighting.,


There may be another way to set this up, instead of making up a language named "TiddlyWiki5" I could "inject" the wikitext rules into the base HTML context. Then setup the field-contexts to be pared as HTML(Extended).... 

But for now this one that defines rules for most of the wikitext as a new language will do.

Best,

Joshua Fontany

[SylvainComte]

Joshua,

In few words : thanks for this! You made my day.

I did try to do it a while ago, but I didn't get enough time to progress enough...

I'll try this asap.

Cheers

Sylvain
@sycom

[Joshua Fontany]

Hi, please find an updated repo on Github.

I have updated link, string, and pragma recognition. Fixed a few other syntax bugs. You will definitely see a lot more higlighting.

Next up, improving Filter highliting.

Best,

Joshua Fontany

[Mohammad]

Many thanks Joshua,

It is really wonderful!

I have submitted an issue here: https://github.com/joshuafontany/VSCode-TW5-Syntax/issues/3

I love the intellisense feature! like autocomplete <$list ....

Thank you

Mohammad 

[LinOnetwo]

Wow, that is very useful, when developing plugin.

Looking forward to your release to marketplace!

在 2020年3月29日星期日 UTC+8上午3:52:08，Joshua Fontany写道：

[TonyM]

I believe with atom you can use a browser plugin to edit a text area in an external editor so this could be used on top of a single file wiki (without codemirror) on a per tiddler basis.

Regards
Tony

[Joshua Fontany]

Version updated to 0.1.2:

## 0.1.2

- Improved variable, tranclusion, link, and macro definition recognition

- Setup seperate "language names" for *.tid / *.meta ("tid"), vs  / *.multids files ("multitids") vs *.tw / *.tw5 wikitext ("tiddlywiki5"). This helps debugging and with certain grammar features (injections).

- Mapped MIME types

On Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 12:52:08 PM UTC-7, Joshua Fontany wrote:

[Mohammad]

Hi Josua, 

Many thanks

Minor comment

Intelisence

<$set 

does not work

--Mohammad

[Joshua Fontany]

Thank you Mohammad,

Could you open an issue in the Github Repo? Mahalo (thanks)!

Best,
Joshua F

[Mohammad]

Sure!