Enhancement suggestion: intellisense

[Nanobot567]

You don't have to add this if you don't want to, I just thought it would be a nice addition to the extension :)

[TIny-Hacker]

This is something I've already considered and would like to add in the future. However, I don't know much about how it works and how long it would take.

[nineteendo]

Maybe this could be of help: http://github.com/nineteendo/tmlx/tree/main/Extension
This is a fairly simple syntax highlighter with code completion using a language server (doesn't work on temp files).
The suggestions are generated like this:

const suggestions = ['black', 'blue', 'color', 'cyan', 'green', 'magenta', 'red', 'white', 'yellow'].map<CompletionItem>(label => {
	return {
		label,
		kind: CompletionItemKind.Constant,
	};
}).concat(['down', 'left', 'right', 'up', 'write'].map(label => {
	return {
		label,
		kind: CompletionItemKind.Function,
	};
})).concat(['else', 'exit', 'goto', 'if', 'while'].map(label => {
	return {
		label,
		kind: CompletionItemKind.Keyword,
	};
}));

Result:

Though we'll have to decide whether we use snippets for functions or not.

[nineteendo]

Also, you should probably remove the lower case prefixes for the snippets:

[nineteendo]

Here is a slightly fancier solution:

const suggestions = [
	{
		kind: CompletionItemKind.Operator,
		items: [
			{
				label: ' or ',
				detail: 'valueA or valueB'
			},
			{
				label: ' xor ',
				detail: 'valueA xor valueB'
			}
		]
	},
	{
		kind: CompletionItemKind.Function,
		items: [
			{
				label: 'Pt-On(',
				detail: 'Pt-On(x,y[,mark])'
			},
			{
				label: 'Pt-Off(',
				detail: 'Pt-Off(x,y[,mark])'
			}
		]
	}
].flatMap(group =>
	group.items.map(item => ({
		kind: group.kind,
		label: item.label,
		detail: item.detail
	}))
);

Note that you don't have to provide the detail.

[nineteendo]

Any updates?

[TIny-Hacker]

I'm currently pretty busy right now with other stuff and I'm working on importing / exporting in #4 as well, so this is lower priority. I'll make the change to the snippets but since I'm changing some token formats to match this I feel like it makes sense to wait to work on this until after that is done.

Thanks for providing the examples though, that will certainly come in handy when I get around to it :)