Ann: VSCode extension - Ada Utilities

Ann: VSCode extension - Ada Utilities

[Lucretia]

Hi,

Ovr the last few days, I've knocked together a VSCode extension to make my life a bit easier, I think others might like it, just copy it in the extensions directory, I've not got it on the marketplace yet.

https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-utilities

Re: VSCode extension - Ada Utilities

[Randy Brukardt]

Could you be a bit clearer: what is a "VSCode extension"?? - Randy.

"Lucretia" <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> Ovr the last few days, I've knocked together a VSCode extension to make my 
> life a bit easier, I think others might like it, just copy it in the 
> extensions directory, I've not got it on the marketplace yet.
>
> https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-utilities 

Re: VSCode extension - Ada Utilities

[Lucretia]

On Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:19:13 UTC, Randy Brukardt  wrote:
> Could you be a bit clearer: what is a "VSCode extension"?? - Randy.

It's something that extends VSCode, obviously. This one adds a few commands, menu items and tasks.

Re: VSCode extension - Ada Utilities

[Jere]

On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 4:19:13 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Could you be a bit clearer: what is a "VSCode extension"?? - Randy.
> 
> "Lucretia"  wrote in message 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ovr the last few days, I've knocked together a VSCode extension to make my 
> > life a bit easier, I think others might like it, just copy it in the 
> > extensions directory, I've not got it on the marketplace yet.
> >
> > https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-utilities

VSCode is an open source text editor/minimalist IDE (think notepad++ maybe?) 
provided by microsoft.  It has an extension API so developers can add various 
types of language support and utilities to it (this allows you to customize it 
to be more like a traditional IDE if you like or do whatever you want with it).  
I use it a lot for Ada development.

Re: VSCode extension - Ada Utilities

[Randy Brukardt]

"Jere" <jhb.chat@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:a13c9d43-2657-4354-8b21-966031214c75@googlegroups.com...
> On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 4:19:13 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> Could you be a bit clearer: what is a "VSCode extension"?? - Randy.
>>
>> "Lucretia"  wrote in message
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Ovr the last few days, I've knocked together a VSCode extension to make 
>> > my
>> > life a bit easier, I think others might like it, just copy it in the
>> > extensions directory, I've not got it on the marketplace yet.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-utilities
>
> VSCode is an open source text editor/minimalist IDE (think notepad++ 
> maybe?)
> provided by microsoft.  It has an extension API so developers can add 
> various
> types of language support and utilities to it (this allows you to 
> customize it
> to be more like a traditional IDE if you like or do whatever you want with 
> it).
> I use it a lot for Ada development.

Thanks. It's hard to know whether something is of general interest when it 
seems to be described in code. Not everyone has heard of your (generic 
"your" here) favorite coding tool...

                                            Randy.

Re: VSCode extension - Ada Utilities

[briot.emmanuel]

> Thanks. It's hard to know whether something is of general interest when it 
> seems to be described in code. Not everyone has heard of your (generic 
> "your" here) favorite coding tool...


Visual Studio Code is actually worth knowing about. I haven't used it myself,
but the reason it is interesting is that it has come with a new protocol named
the Language Server Protocol that is used by a lot of editors/IDEs nowadays to
do things like cross-reference queries ("go to declaration of", "find all references") to refactoring ("rename an entity"), and more.

To the point that most languages nowadays come with such a server (Ada has one based on libadalang, too). Those servers can be queried from vim (which I use),
from Emacs (Stephen has started looking into that for ada-mode, as per a discussion two weeks ago), from GPS (where the Ada language server comes from), Visual Studio Code, and a lot of others.