llvm-mirror/utils/vscode/tablegen/vsc-extension-quickstart.md

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 you extension.
• syntaxes/TableGen.tmLanguage - this is the Text mate grammar file that is used for tokenization
• language-configuration.json - this 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 highlight 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.