I'm wondering how to run simple Scheme code on Visual Studio Code.
I've installed an extension called Scheme, but what is the next step..
I didn't find any details on the extension about how to run the code or the developer's contact ...
Compiling Scheme on VSCode is quite easy by now.
Install the Code Runner extension.
For setting it up:
Open User Settings (ctrl + , by default)
Search for Code-runner: Executor Map By File Extension.
Press "Edit in settings.json"
Add the following:
"code-runner.executorMapByFileExtension": {
".scm": "racket"
}
Run the code directly with ctrl + alt + n or from the Command Palette (ctrl + shift + p) with Run Code
From looking at the github source it seems it only provide basic syntax highlighting support. Thus VSC is slightly better than Notepad, but not much.
To run you need to start one of the available scheme systems and run the file. It might be a way to do that from VSC, but it's not included in the extension.
I would have opted for DrRacket which is a IDE and an implementation of many Scheme standard languages. It can help you expand macros, debug and profile your code in the same place. Another great alternative is Emacs, but it requires a little more effort to set up. I have yet to hear about other alternatives.
If you just want to use VS Code because it's a good IDE (better than DRacket in terms of completion (parens, etc) and code navigation, I just discovered scheme on repl.it.
Doesn't appear that you can debug in Scheme. But it's a good start. (I'm getting the csi error as well).
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When opening a Python file in vscode, I see an overlay in the upper right corner of the window that allows me to directly run the program:
Where does this overlay comes from?
from an extension specific to Python?
from something that leverage tasks and allows for such display?
something else?
I am asking because it would be great to have such a shortcut in other programming languages (Go in my case) to quickly launch (something, usually to run a program)
This functionality comes from the ms-python.python extension.
You can verify for yourself: Disable the extension, then do the required IDE reload, then observe that that button is gone. Then enable the extension and observe that it is back.
There's even a corresponding command that you can use in the command palette: Straight from the extension docs:
Python: Run Python File in Terminal
Runs the active Python file in the VS Code terminal. You can also run a Python file by right-clicking on the file and selecting Run Python File in Terminal.
Note: Since you mentioned:
I am asking because it would be great to have such a shortcut in other programming languages (Go in my case) to quickly launch (something, usually to run a program)
Since this is functionality provided by an extension, you're "at the mercy" of whatever the extension devlopers actually want to implement, and whether such a feature actually makes sense for a given language.
Such a "run file" button would very natural for languages that lend themselves toward scripting, but less so for languages geared toward larger projects where it's not statistically normal for a file to "have a main function".
I'm currently switching editors from Vim to VS Code. One feature I like in vim is the ability to run an external command on a region of text (the :! command). I've been unable to find an obvious equivalent in VS Code.
Is this feature available in VS Code? Or is there an extension that provides it?
(As a more general question, what's the best way of finding out things like this? Is there a website or anything that describes how to do common tasks from other editors in VS Code?)
For the record, VSCodeVim allows you to do the same thing.
Having searched some more (the key term is "filter the selection") I found the Filter Text extension, which does exactly what I want.
I'm coming from a pure Windows Visual Studio programming background with little Linux experience. It seems possible to use VS Code to program in Julia, but I can't figure out how to get things set up correctly.
Does anybody have good example launch.json, tasks.json, or other files that can serve as an example to build from?
This would be a great thing to see in a detailed tutorial.
Here is how things work if you are using the Julia extension for VisualStudio Code.
The extension adds a bunch of new commands. They all start with "julia", so filtering by that string should show you everything you can do with the extension.
In terms of running Julia code, the extension offers only two options right now. First, you can execute a command to start a REPL. This will just show a default Julia prompt, and you can interact with it like you would with any other Julia REPL. The second is that there is also a command, triggered by Ctrl + Enter, to send either the current editor selection or the current editor line to this REPL.
There is currently no further integration offered by the Julia extension. We do plan to add debugger support in the future, at which point I would expect F5 to start the current file in the debugger, or something like that. But that functionality is probably a couple of months away.
I am very familiar with emacs--and I realize that there is nothing that it cannot do--but there are some things that it does not do well or efficiently. So, being between projects I am open to the idea of switching to a full-featured IDE such as Eclipse.
With muscle-memory being what it is, I would like to make Eclipse as emacs-like as possible. I have already discovered the excellent Emacs+ plugin which gets me about halfway there. However, I am still missing the following features of emacs which I routinely rely upon:
shell: It's not just a shell, it's also a buffer.
occur: Search->File... is close to what I want, but I just want it to search the current file--which might be a text file, a logfile, or a shell buffer, or whatever.
align-regexp: This awesome little command in emacs helps me make files more readable, and alignment helps with keyboard macros.
What plugins would you recommend to solve these issues? Are there any other emacs features you miss in Eclipse or plugins you would recommend?
Please, no emacs/vi zealots asking why on Earth I would do such a thing.
For the shell you have WickedShell
Ctrl+F is enough to trigger a Search within the current file. (does not create a new buffer with matched lines)
Only Mark Occurrences is about highlighting occurrences, but that is not as advanced as the Emacs function.
Formatter options can emulate "align-regex" function, as described here.
Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter.
Click 'Edit' on the profile (you may need to make a new one since you can't edit the default).
In the indentation section select 'Align fields with columns'.
Then, in your code Ctrl+Shift+F will run that formatter.
I can confirm Brian's suggestion (Emacs key-bindings). What I do to resolve this dilemma is to use both Emacs and Eclipse simultaneously. They are both very good at reporting external changes to files so there is minimal chance of tromping on edits (but it can happen). More to the point, you can leverage the strengths of both tools without having to give up either one. The combination of using both tools and Eclipse having Emacs key-bindings makes this quite satisfactory for me.
IIRC (It's been a while since I've used eclipse) eclipse has a "use Emacs key-bindings" mode. I believe that there's also the option to tell eclipse to use emacs as its own editor...
I have been doing some java development lately and have started using Eclipse. For the most part, I think it is great, but being a C/C++ guy used to doing all of his editing in vim, I find myself needlessly hitting the Esc key over and over.
It would be really nice if I got all the nice features of Eclipse, but still could do basic editing the same way I can in vim. Anyone know of any Eclipse pluggins that would help with this?
Vrapper:
an Eclipse plugin which acts as a wrapper for Eclipse text editors to provide a Vim-like input scheme for moving around and editing text.
Unlike other plugins which embed Vim in Eclipse, Vrapper imitates the behaviour of Vim while still using whatever editor you have opened in the workbench. The goal is to have the comfort and ease which comes with the different modes, complex commands and count/operator/motion combinations which are the key features behind editing with Vim, while preserving the powerful features of the different Eclipse text editors, like code generation and refactoring...
There is this plugin that costs $20+
http://satokar.com/viplugin/
I use it and it works great, you've got basic vi movement commands and a set of others.
Here is an open source, free plugin but i've never been able to get it working (i'm on a mac).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vimplugin/
You can also go the other way and get eclipse code completion inside vim.
http://eclim.sourceforge.net/
You basically run an instance of Eclipse and you will be working inside vim. They just released a version compatible with Eclipse 3.4.
New plugin I've started using
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/viable-vim-eclipse
Viable has pretty much what you are looking for along with some extra features which none of the other plugins for eclipse seem to have, like some support for visual block mode, command line history, window splitting, and piping external commands.
It is pay ($15.00 CAD) but free to tree with all the features. I personally like it better than the other solutions.