Request for formatting options and textmate grammar

[iamkenos]

🤔 What's the problem you're trying to solve?

Hi team!

First of all, thank you for all your work to provide the community with this extension.

I've been using the Cucumber (Gherkin) Full Support for a long time and I really liked it. Let's call it (CGFS).

I decided to check the official VSCode plugin provided by the Cucumber team and after half a day of playing around, I noticed the following differences:

Better points:

• the feature-to-glue smart navigation works (go to definition) better for this plugin in my experience. the CGFS smart navs behaves clunky sometimes for reasons i can't really figure out.
• other features like auto complete, step suggestions are also better than CGFS

Can be improved:

• this plugin provides 3 options and none of em are for formatting. i really liked this setting from CGFS that allows auto indents for certain keywords.
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• there are no textmate rules that comes with the plugin, further limiting the formatting, samples below:
  • this existing issue: https://github.com/cucumber/vscode/issues/89
  • unable to colorize comments:
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I'd really like to use this because of the better smart navs and auto complete but I wish we can get formatting capabilities too.

I tried activating both plugins and noticed they don't play well together. Even with other Cucumber plugins that just provide better syntax highlighting.

✨ What's your proposed solution?

• Expose options for formatting, similar to how CGFS does. even just the indents will be game changer.
• Expose TextMate settings that users can play around with.

⛏ Have you considered any alternatives or workarounds?

• Tried poking around the installed extension under .vscode to see if I can do quick hacks and maybe raise a pull request but none worked
• Tried installing other Cucumber syntax plugins but the either the highlighting doesnt work or the smart navs break. I couldnt get both working.

📚 Any additional context?

No response

[kieran-ryan]

Thanks for your interest in the project @iamkenos!

Would you be able to advise whether your requests are covered under the following issues, and perhaps to capture any requirements under those issues which are not already covered?

• 118

• 89

• cucumber/language-service#212

• Tried poking around the installed extension under .vscode to see if I can do quick hacks and maybe raise a pull request but none worked

Would certainly be interested to support you in contributing. Suggest to try out the contributing guide and advise how you get on. Even small or partial MRs can really help move a request towards release - particularly as we are heavily reliant on drop-in contributions from our community.