Luanti (formerly Minetest) Tools

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Features

• Luanti (5.11.0) Lua API code autocompletion
• Mod and game folder structure boilerplates
• .luacheckrc generator (globals only)
• Formspec string syntax highlighting

Note: Code snippets were generated from lua_api.md using snippets.js. Quality not guaranteed.

Extension Settings

• minetest-tools.workspaceOnly: Code snippets will only be shown if certain files/folders (init.lua, mods, modpack.txt) are detected in the main workspace folder (default: true).

• editor.quickSuggestions.strings: Some snippets (formspecs, texture modifiers) depend on string suggestions being enabled. This can be very annoying sometimes, so the snippets will only work if the string key in editor.quickSuggestions is set to true.

  It should look something like this:

  "editor.quickSuggestions": {
      "other": true,
      "comments": false,
      "strings": true
  }
  

TODO

• Make autocomplete snippets update automatically when needed
• Generate .luacheckrc and snippet.js from API
• Fix formspec element autocomplete (this will require a language server)

Release Notes

2.0.0: February 26, 2025

• Use Luanti name
• API autocompletion bumped to Luanti version 5.11.0
• Use core namespace instead of minetest
• Update lua_api.md link
• Various internal improvements

1.4.3: November 4, 2024

• API autocompletion bumped to Minetest version 5.9.1

1.4.2: May 2, 2023

• API autocompletion bumped to Minetest version 5.7.0
• Only store API reference line numbers in snippet file to reduce size

1.4.1: June 12, 2021

• Fixed function arguments breaking on certain characters
• Fixed autocompletion of constants

1.4.0: April 30, 2021

• API autocompletion bumped to Minetest version 5.4.1
• Rewrote snippet generator
  • No longer requires manual input
  • Captures all API methods, tables, and constants
  • Adjusted quick info formatting
  • Includes API links
• CompletionItemProvider can handle some backspacing now
• Methods with functions as parameters are a little smarter now
• Texture modifiers will remove trailing bracket if autocompleted
• Global constructors and namespaces now have snippets
• Added missing globals to .luacheckrc
• Fixed and tweaked formspec highlighting