SL External Editor

This Extension is designed to integrate vscode better as the external editor for Second Life

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Setup

I suggest that you chose a folder on your system to hold all your sl projects, without better support in the SL viewer directly it is difficult to manage multiple, though nothing is stopping you from having as many editors open as you like.

Using the "main project folder" setup style

Set the external editor config in the viewer to something like this..

• Windows: "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" "C:\Users\<user>\projects\sl\scripts" "%s"
• Mac: /opt/homebrew/bin/code -r "/Users/<user>/projects/sl/scripting" "%s"
• Linux: /usr/bin/code "/home/<user>/projects/sl/scripting" "%s"

These are not exact examples, your system setup may differ, the location of the directory for your scripts is entirely up to you

After that you should be good to go, though I would advise looking through the config options below, and trying the hint system.

Free wheeling it

This way works best if you open vscode before you start working in SL

Set the external editor config in the viewer to something like this..

• Windows: "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" "%s"
• Mac: /opt/homebrew/bin/code "%s"
• Linux: /usr/bin/code "%s"

These are not exact examples, your system setup may differ.

Support

Contact WolfGang Senizen in world if you are having issues.

Features

Detects saves to recognized file extensions, and matches them to files that the Second Life viewer has created in the system temp directory

This is done either purely by name, by directory and name, or by specified hints using directory and name to match

Support For

• Windows, Linux, Mac
• Luau Language Server (optional)
• Selene (optional)
• Any Second Life viewer that has the ExternalEditor feature
• Automatic type definition downloading for SLua
• External Pre processing tools - See here for documentation
• Attempting to open project directories automatically

Commands

• SL External Editor: Enable - Enable The extension for the current directory
• SL External Editor: Update LSP Defs - Force an update and refresh of the LSP Defs
• SL External Editor: Setup/Update Selene - Force an update and refresh of the Selene Library

Hints

Certain hints can be added to a script to make working with this extension smoother, they are completely optional, but will help in situations where you have many separate projects open at once, or use a single "Mono Project" folder.

Hints are written prefixed with the single line comment for their language, // for LSL, -- for SLua

• @project <project_dir> setting this will make the extension only match files for saving if they are within a directory path that contains project_dir
  • e.g. -- @project huds/space_roleplay
  • Would match a files in a directory like this /home/user/secondlife/huds/space_roleplay/scripts/main.luau
  • But not one like this /home/user/projects/huds/secondlife/space_roleplay/main.luau
  • This hint will also be used to try and automatically open the right folder, if the secondLifeExternalEditor.dir.projects config option is set.
• @file <file_name> this will override the default script name detection mechanism, it can be combined with @project to specify files inside a project
  • When used in combination with @project it restricts to that specific file withing the detected project folder.
  • When used without @project it just overrides the auto detected script name and follows the rest of the matching rules.

Extension Settings

This extension has the following settings:

General

• secondLifeExternalEditor.enabled: Recommend this is set at a workspace level rather than system wide
• secondLifeExternalEditor.dir.projects: Used to open vscode automatically to the right directory inside of this specified one, if it can match a file.
  • e.g. /home/user/projects C:\Users\user\projects
  • When a new tempfile is passed to vscode if it cannot be matched in the current workspace, the extension will combine this path with the @project hint and the (script name or @file hint) to try and locate the right place to open
• secondLifeExternalEditor.hints.prefix: The prefix to use to provide hints to the extension
• secondLifeExternalEditor.watcher.tempFilesRequireDirectoryPrefix: Sets wether scripts need to be named with their folder name as well (this can be disabled, but is recommended to avoid false matches, especially when having multiple projects open at once) e.g. <folder_name>/<file_name> as the name of your script in SL.
• secondLifeExternalEditor.watcher.fileExtensions: List of file extensions to care about. (Defaults to lua, luau, lsl, slua)

Type Def and Snippet Downloads

• secondLifeExternalEditor.download.enabled Wether Type Def files should be automatically downloaded
• secondLifeExternalEditor.download.location Where those files should be stored for your projects
• secondLifeExternalEditor.download.snippets Where to download snippets for vscode from
• secondLifeExternalEditor.matcher.autoCloseTempScript If a temp script file is opened and a matching file is found, the temp file will be closed and matching file opened.
• Requires Luau Language Server or similar
  • secondLifeExternalEditor.luau-lsp.downloadTypeDefs A list of url's to download Luau Type Def files from
  • secondLifeExternalEditor.luau-lsp.downloadApiDocs A list of url's to download Luau-LSP Api documentation files from
• Requires Selene or similar
  • secondLifeExternalEditor.selene.download The location to download a selene standard library definition from

Preprocessor

• secondLifeExternalEditor.preprocessor.command.lsl: The command to execute as a preprocessor step to affect the output before it is put into the viewers temp file for lsl scripts
• secondLifeExternalEditor.preprocessor.command.slua: The command to execute as a preprocessor step to affect the output before it is put into the viewers temp file for SLua scripts
• secondLifeExternalEditor.preprocessor.watchIncludes: If the preprocessor outputs compatible information about extra files it included, then the extension will watch for those files changing as well
• secondLifeExternalEditor.preprocessor.download Url to download preproc from.\n\nIf not specified and the command is run, it will download the default dsl option

Planned Features

• Updates

Known Issues

• It's not finished

Release Notes

0.3

• 0.3.4 Stop error processing if no errors
• 0.3.3 Disable debug features in release extension
• 0.3.2 Actually bump the version.... dingus
• 0.3.1 Preproc version bump for bug with line counts
• 0.3.0 Error watcher for new .log file the viewer produces, a little pointless at the moment if you have the lsp setup
  • A fix for preproc being configured in workspace config, should now set in global, avoids leaking username and conflicting in shared projects that choose to commit .vscode directory

0.2

• 0.2.6 Better file watcher, and linking log files
• 0.2.5 Log file handling for upcoming viewer changes
• 0.2.4 Fix escaping bug in preproc path
• 0.2.2 Add command to download and install pre-processor
• 0.2.1 Add Preproc out file support
• 0.2.0 Add Preproc support and fix major save bug

0.1

• 0.1.1 Add snippets and better selene toml handling
• 0.1.0 Cool icon and "release"

0.0

• 0.0.10 Fixed relative paths for type defs
• 0.0.9 Better handling of auto opening files.
• 0.0.8 Add file open handling and auto closing of temp files
• 0.0.7 Fix for file copying not overwriting existing files
• 0.0.6 Setup publisher
• 0.0.5 Fix version issue
• 0.0.4 Implement Automatic type def downloads
• 0.0.3 Mac temp directory detection
• 0.0.2 Windows file path fixes
• 0.0.1 Initial implementation