Magma Notebook

This extension adds language support for the Magma computational algebra system to Visual Studio Code. Its provides several features as can be seen below.

Features

• Syntax highlighting

• A MagmaNotebook extension that uses the built-in notebook support from VS Code. This UI gives a number of advantages to users of notebooks:

  • Out of the box support for VS Code's vast array of basic code editing features like hot exit, find & replace, and code folding.
  • Editor extensions like VIM, bracket colorization, linters and many more are available while editing a cell.
  • Deep integration with general workbench and file-based features in VS Code.
  • Includes a notebook-friendly diff tool, making it much easier to compare and see differences between code cells, output and metadata.
  • Run several Magma environments in different Notebooks, each with corresponding variables and definitions.

• Snippests

  

Requirements

Installed and fully functional version of Magma (either under Windows, Mac or Linux).

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• magma.path: Define the path to the installed magma application (ie. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Magma" under windows, or /Applications/Magma/ under Mac)
• magma.port: Internal TCP port used to ensure kernel connection with magma, has to be changed only if the default port "9001" is already used by another application.

IDE features

Creation of new Magma Notebbok from the File> New files... menu (custom notebook editor).

Installation

Visual Studio Code

To install the extension from Visual Studio Code use the extension panel and search for magmanotebook.

Installing Locally

In order to install the extension locally, clone the GitHub repository under your local extensions folder:

• Windows: %USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions
• Mac / Linux: $HOME/.vscode/extensions

License

Magma-Notebook-Vscode is licensed under the MIT License; see Link. for details.

Created by FARAOUN Kamel Mohamed (Jan 2023)