Name-check Octave Hacking?

apjanke commented 4 years ago

Hi Paulo,

I see that in your README you're recommending other Octave VS Code extensions for syntax highlighting and the like. Would you consider checking out my Octave Hacking extension and maybe including that in the list of recommendations?

Octave Hacking improves on the other Octave language support extensions in the VS Code Marketplace by:

adding Outline View navigation support
doing some customizations and improvements on the syntax definition beyond what the original TextMate language bundle provides (which is what the other extensions seem to be using, unmodified), and
providing some snippets for common code structures

Cheers, and thank you for writing this extension!

Andrew Janke

paulo-fernando-silva commented 4 years ago

Sure. I've been quite busy, but allow me a bit of time to take a look. Thanks.

paulo-fernando-silva commented 4 years ago

I like the outline navigation. It would be nice to have also a F12 or "jump to definition" functionality. Didn't look into what is needed for that though. Thanks!

apjanke commented 4 years ago

My plan is to add All That! I am looking in to writing a VS Code Language Server component for Octave which will allow more sophisticated processing of the source code and building up symbol tables, which will support Jump To Definition, a nicer Outline view, and more.

Don't hold your breath, though. This will be a large project, much bigger than the basic regex-based stuff the base language support is doing.

paulo-fernando-silva / vscOctaveDebugger

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