This comment syntax highlighting from this package is very nice for making different comments stick out & organizing thoughts.
It looks like the picture below...
Is this possible in VS Code for any and all languages?
Requirement is that this should be possible to integrate with existing themes in VS Code.
Minimally I'm asking for Dart/Flutter, but would prefer a universal comment syntax highlighter so all languages get same comment treatment.
The TODO Highlight Extension does this.
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Is there a way in VS Code to format code according to the style that a person prefers? I guess there might be a plugin for this sort of thing but I've not found that.
For example, I prefer 'K&R' coding style while a colleague prefers 'Whitesmiths' style. When we share code or functions it would be nice to autoformat code into the style that each prefers.
This does not seem like it should be so difficult for a plugin to do except that coding style also has to parse the language of the code, so Whitesmiths PowerShell is going to be different from Whitesmiths on Perl I would imagine.
Are there any plugins like this (or internal functionality in VS Code - it's a very comprehensive tool without installing any plugins of course!) that people use regularly like this?
In contrast to its name, "JIndent" (commercial) is a tool I've been using for the exact purpose you're asking about.
I'm writing an extension for Visual Studio Code which features syntax highlighting for a scripting language. I was able to color many important elements via a TextMate grammar file. There are many lines where I would not know if a captured string refers to a user defined class (for a static call, for instance), or an instance of a class/variable until I perform analysis in code.
Is there a way I can dynamically highlight syntax via code in Visual Studio Code or any alternatives for achieving this?
What you are asking for is semantic coloring. It is not supported as of VS Code 1.35. You could try to emulate it using decorators, but the decorators can easily get out of sync with the rest of the highlighting during editing
This VS Code issue tracks adding semantic coloring to VS Code.
I'm looking into what would be the best option to extend VS code with an extension which add some more features to the JSON Format such as additional keyword highlighting.
What would be the best approach ?
Taking over the tmlanguage file for JSON and add additional options for eg syntax highlighting connected to a new language ?
"Extending" the JSON fomat ?
Custom linter ?
This looks my best bet I could find till now: Can a language in Visual Studio Code be extended?
Tnx in advance for giving advice what would be the best approach.
It depends on what features do you want and how much time you would like to spend on it.
If the syntax highlighting is the main purpose, just get a tmLanguage file for the programming language and use the official generator yocode to create an extension from it.
Visual Studio Code and Microsoft behind it are promoting the Language Server Protocol which may be the ultimate solution. And of course, it requires much more work.
I have some big documentation to do that will contain pieces of code I'd like to give the conventional "coding language" syntax highlighting. I've searched the styles feature to do such a thing, but there is no way to do that (in fact I could only found a forum where people were fighting about adding this feature or not, but this is not the point).
There is an abandoned extension for OpenOffice, but using it freezes my installation of OpenOffice.
What's the easiest way to do this? Should I try to recompile the extension and debug it (although I'm already having a hard time compiling another Java project), or maybe I should use a macro? How to implement this?
One possibility is to use one of the many code to html tools out there and then include the html in your OpenOffice document (using "File..." on the Insert menu).
One possibility is highlight. Vim has a :TOhtml command that will convert the current file to syntax highlighted html using the current colour scheme. I've not tried it, but this looks promising. There are also a few online ones, such as this. I'm sure there are a great many other options.
I really enjoyed defining syntax highlighting rules in Notepad++ for the various build logs and artifacts I've worked on in the past to make certain text markers pop out. I was wondering if VSCode has any capabilities to do likewise.
For reference to the unfamiliar here's the Notepad++ documentation and a live demonstration:
https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-defined-language-system/
How to Create Custom Language Definitions in Notepad++
Looks like there is support for something in this direction. The terminology is slightly different though and there may not be a GUI interface like Notedpad++
Declarative Language Feature
Syntax Highlight Guide: VS Code uses TextMate grammar for syntax highlighting. This guide will walk you through writing a simple TextMate grammar and converting it into a VS Code extension.
Create Custom Language in Visual Studio Code
https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/overview#declarative-language-features
https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/language-configuration-guide