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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlightning

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I just noticed that it doesn't seem to hilite augmentation tags correctly? Like [+units] and such.

There also seem to be a few (very minor) bugs with the automatic indent/outdent. In particular, tags in comments count when it's deciding whether to indent, and placing the closing tag on the same line as the opening tag still outdents. I also had it break entirely at one point and had to disable/re-enable the extension to get it back, but I have no idea how to reproduce it.
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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlightning

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Well, all I did to have the indentation work was this:

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    "indentationRules": {
	"increaseIndentPattern": "\\[([_A-Za-z0-9]*)\\]",
	"decreaseIndentPattern": "\\[\\/([_A-Za-z0-9]*)\\]"
    }
Unfortunately I really have no idea how to fix that.
About the [+units], I there should be a way to fix it, but I haven't found it yet.
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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlightning

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Hmm, what about adding ^\\s* to the beginning of both patterns? I think that might fix most of the indent bugs, though it may still indent if you type [tag][/tag] on one line...
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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlightning

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    "indentationRules": {
		"increaseIndentPattern": "^\\s*\\[([_A-Za-z0-9]*)\\]",
		"decreaseIndentPattern": "^\\s*\\[\\/([_A-Za-z0-9]*)\\]"
	}
like this?
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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlightning

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That's what I proposed, yeah. I think it should work provided that those patterns match only a specific line.
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Alright, then. It's updated. :)
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Just uploaded another small update. Version 1.0.5 adds `#ifhave` and `#ifnhave` to the recogniced syntax.
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Which reminds me, are #arg and #endarg supported yet?
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Yes I think so. Lemme check.
Edit: yep, they are.
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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlighting

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This might be asking for a lot, but I wonder how difficult it would be to add outline support? I'm thinking of something kinda similar to the JSON outline support... or maybe just note the tag hierarchy? Though it'd also be awesome to have special support for event tags, and perhaps a few other common tag types - for example, listing the event's name and ID in the outline.
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I think that's a bit above my skills, at least currently, but surely an interesting idea.
I will add a note to the maybe-in-future-features. :)
Recognizing syntax errors is on top of that list.
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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlighting

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$variables could use separate color.
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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlighting

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True. Should be able to make it next week.
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Re: VS Code - WML Syntax highlighting

Post by JustNatan »

Hey,
I installed it, but I don't know how to activate it properly.
All other syntax highlighter for python, cpp and so on are automatically activated when opening a .py or .cpp file, but the WML extension is not.
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