- 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/commonlisp.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.
- 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.
- You can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after making changes to the files listed above.
- You can also reload (
Ctrl+R
orCmd+R
on Mac) the VS Code window with your extension to load your changes.
- To add features such as intellisense, hovers and validators check out the VS Code extenders documentation at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs
- 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.