I am developing a VSCode extension that register a custom editor, this editor uses a webview to show the file.
I am using "Buffer.toString" to read the text part of the file, I would like use the setting "file.encoding" to use the current encoding but the values looks does not correspond to nodejs ones.. there is some package I can use for this? maybe I miss some VSCode API methods?
I would like also add the possibility of "reopen with encoding" on my editor. Is it possible use the already exists menu?
I see that VSCode uses iconv-lite to support different encoding, and I must do from scratch the support for "reopen with encoding"
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I'd like to do something like a project file. When the user opens it, the webview of my extension would welcome the user instead of the default VSCode editor.
I know I can workaround it by adding extra context menu items or buttons, but in this case I'm curious if it's possible to override that it by default tries to open in the editor.
Is this possible either manually or automatically?
What you're after sounds exactly like what the upcoming webview / custom editor API hopes to accomplish.
The custom editor API aims to allow extensions to create fully customizable read/write editors that are used in place of VS Code's standard text editor for specific resources. These editors will be based on webviews. We will support editors for both binary and text resources.
See the following issue for more info and further links to the proposed API, example extensions etc:
Custom webview editor API (#77131)
Note that it usually takes a while for new APIs to make it into stable releases after being made available as "proposed APIs".
I have the vscode-pdf extension installed which let's me directly view pdf files in VS code. Is there any possibility to open pdf files directly with the said extension by just clicking on the file?
The current behaviour when clicking on a pdf file is the following message:
The file is not displayed in the editor because it is either binary or uses an unsupported text encoding. Do you want to open it anyway?
Edit: I use VS Code version 1.40.2 1.60.0
Edit2: The feature mentioned in the answer to this question now seems to be integrated. Any update on this?
Not as of VS Code 1.41
However this is a good potential use case for the proposed custom editor api
I am exploring vscode after using atom for a long while. One of the things I'm missing is an equivalent of the lovely package advanced-open-file. Is there something similar to this in vscode?
I found the advanced-new-file extension, but it is only helpful when it comes to new files. I would like to be able to quickly open files from all over my local files (not only the workspace).
Edit: I found the option of workbench.action.quickOpen; but it doesn't allow opening files from the whole file system.
Sorry, but currently the answer is no. The problem is that input box doesn't provide a way to listen to key events:
GitHub issue,
so even the extensions can't do that currently. Here's the comment from advanced-new-file extension creator:
Because VSCode extensions don't yet have the ability to do type-ahead autocomplete within the text input box (See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/426), we work around this limitation and provide autocomplete using a two-step workflow of selecting existing path, then providing new filename/path relative to the selection.
The good news is that there is a new API addressing this issue, but it's currently in 'proposed' state and can't be used for published extensions.
One workaround could be typing code -r some/path in integrated terminal and using 'tab' for autocomplete.
The Fuzzy search extension seems to work for me.
It adds a new action to the command palette which allows you to search for files in the current project and open them.
I have a file with extension .xml.
But it doesn't necessarily contain XML. It may also contain HTML and JavaScript. Now I would like to either have Eclipse decide inteligently/heuristically which syntax highlighting would be appropriate or to switch it myself.
Any ideas?
Eclipse associates files with an editor. You can let eclipse decide which editor to use (e.g. defaults per file extension) or select the editor by yourself. I guess you might already know that or have at least experienced it.
Syntax highlighting isn't always set seperately but instead part of some editor (together with stuff like keyboard shortcuts). So what you are going to need is an editor that behaves the way you want it to. I do not know if there is an editor like this available but one options is writing an eclipse plug-in and implementing such an editor.
Fortunately there are great editors for each of XML, javascript, HTML, etc that are all open source. I guess you might be able to use some of their code. Ideally as a client of their API / Objects or if it won't work out just by reusing code.
short answer: not possible. use PHPStorm instead :)
I'm looking for a lightweight text editor for web.config files which has colour syntax highlighting (like in visual studio).
Any suggestions?
You can use Notepad++. When you work with web.config select XML language to get color syntax highlighting. It looks like this.
Well obviously you can use any editor (e.g. EditPlus or Notepad++) but if you're looking for a light weight editor client that "knows" what a web.config is have a look at ASPhere
http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2007/12/07/free-utility-web-config-editor-with-a-great-ui.aspx
I use ASPhere. It's great!
About ASPhere ...
ASPhere is a freeware utility
primarily intended for creating and
modifying configuration files for
ASP.NET. But they are not only
web.config files ASPhere can work
with, you can use it for viewing and
editing normal XML files and plain
text files as well.
http://www.asphere.cz/en/index.html
I use Notepad2 for that and many other editing purposes. Freeware, totally usable, quick and light - all you can ask for. Highly recommended.
Marc
in the notepad++
Settings -> Style Configuration -> in the left Listbox select XML -> at bottom the "User ext.:" textbox set "config".
Done
The Scintilla SciTE is ultra lightweight, and does XML syntax coloring.
SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.
The download page says:
A single file executable called Sc1 (530K) does not need any DLL or properties files as these are linked into the executable.