--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/vsc-extension-quickstart.md Mon May 11 17:50:17 2020 -0500 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# Welcome to your VS Code Extension + +## What's in the folder + +* This folder contains all of the files necessary for your extension. +* `package.json` - this is the manifest file in which you declare your language support and define the location of the grammar file that has been copied into your extension. +* `syntaxes/latex.tmLanguage.json` - this is the Text mate grammar file that is used for tokenization. +* `language-configuration.json` - this is the language configuration, defining the tokens that are used for comments and brackets. + +## Get up and running straight away + +* Make sure the language configuration settings in `language-configuration.json` are accurate. +* Press `F5` to open a new window with your extension loaded. +* Create a new file with a file name suffix matching your language. +* Verify that syntax highlighting works and that the language configuration settings are working. + +## Make changes + +* You can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after making changes to the files listed above. +* You can also reload (`Ctrl+R` or `Cmd+R` on Mac) the VS Code window with your extension to load your changes. + +## Add more language features + +* To add features such as intellisense, hovers and validators check out the VS Code extenders documentation at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs + +## Install your extension + +* To start using your extension with Visual Studio Code copy it into the `<user home>/.vscode/extensions` folder and restart Code. +* To share your extension with the world, read on https://code.visualstudio.com/docs about publishing an extension.