mvextensions
[FEATURE] Add UniData Language Syntax
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, the client\Syntaxes\MvLanguage.json file contains MVON# Basic language definition and the client\Syntaxes\MVON.tmLanguage.json file contains the MVON# Basic syntax highlighting definition. We are looking to include UniData syntax out of the box to have available as an option within the extension.
Describe the solution you'd like An acceptable pull request for this issue would include a UniData versions of the MvLanguage.json and MVON.tmLanguage.json files that can be included in the base package. This pull request need not concern itself with any of the plumbing for the extension to be able to dynamically load that syntax into place, we're simply looking for the syntax definition here.
I'd like to take a stab at this - I know Unidata, but not javascript or the internals of VSCode. Many (but not all) of the Unidata keywords will be similar to Universe and HELP.FILE can be reviewed to jump start the effort.
After looking around at this, it seems like some kind soul has done most of the hard work already in this snippets-unidata.json file for Unidata. Would it be ok to transform that data into UniDataLanguage.json? The main thing missing is having different icons for different types of commands.
https://github.com/ianmcgowan/mvbasic/blob/unidata/Syntaxes/UniDataLanguage.json for an example...
I think so, @ianmcgowan! If memory serves these came about via @andrewcole50.
I think so, @ianmcgowan! If memory serves these came about via @andrewcole50.
Yep that was me! Important note: I'm not a Unidata guy and everything was straight from the documentation. With that, I'm sure things could be worded better and there are probably more realistic examples that could be used.
@ianmcgowan I wrote a converter script that converted the snippets files to the {FLAVOR}Language.json files for d3 and I thought I'd run it for UniData as well. The script made estimates on which icons to use and I did NOT manually look at much of the results. I think it would be great if you could look at the referenced PR and verify what was done.
AFAIK, the icon numbers correlate to: 3 = Function 14 = Statement 21 = CONSTANT