Syntax Highlighting for Asymptote files (.asy)

[sivapvarma]

Currently Asymptote (.asy) files are treated as plain text.

Here is the same file in TeXStudio

Since asymptote has C++ like syntax, changing language to C++ helps a bit (but this has to be done manually ?)

It would be cool to have dedicated support for asymptote.

If you are on a mac, you install asymptote using tlmgr

sudo tlmgr install asymptote

[James-Yu]

Unfortunately, syntax highlight in vscode uses the textmate engine, for which I cannot find the highlighter of asymptote files. For instance, the one for LaTeX is available at https://github.com/textmate/latex.tmbundle .

[jlelong]

I find it a bit strange to implement asymptote syntax into this package. For instance, there is a separate package for Atom. If the asymptote language were implemented in an extension for vscode, what could be done is to highlight the asy environment using this style thanks to the embedding mechanism.

[jlelong]

Everything inside \begin{asy}...\end{asy} is recognized as Asymptote code. Note that to make it work, you first need to install the Asymptote extension.