STupidLord's Hearts of Iron 4 Syntax Highlighting

STupidLord's Hearts of Iron 4 Syntax Highlighting is a extention made to highlight your HoI4 code in a simple way.

If you encounter any missing highlighting feel free to make an issue.

Features

The main and currently only function of this extension is highlighting the various pieces of code for HoI4. It also includes a way to add your own custom syntax, i.e. for custom ideologies, scripted effects, missing syntax, ect.

Recommended extensions to pair with

• Rainbow CSV

Themes

• HoI4 Dark
• HoI4 Light - p.s. I'm not a light mode user so I don't know exactly what people look for in a light theme

State History Example

Focus Tree Example

How to add custom syntax?

1. Custom syntax is added in the user.tmLanguage.json file. To find this on your device, it should be located at %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions\stupidlord.stupid-hoi4-syntax-1.1.0\syntaxes
2. Once you have that file open, find the appropreiate syntax to add to.
3. To add your syntax; replace the PLACEHOLDERSOTHISDOESNTMATCHANYTHINGREMOVETHISTOADDYOUROWNTHINGS string inside of "match": "\\b()\\b" with your desired text
   1. To add multiple sets of text use the pipe symbol | as a devider
   2. For more advanced syntax you can reference Regular Expression Language - Quick Reference and Language Grammars
4. Restart VSCode or use the Developer: Reload Window command

^{Warning, updates may overwrite your user.tmLanguage.json file, make backups if you are worried about losing it or have a lot of custom syntax!}

Release Notes

^{Full changelog}

1.2.0

The real public release version, I swear. Finally went through and copied the effects, modifiers, and triggers from the base game documentation so it should now have almost if not every base game thing to highlight.

1.2.1

Minor fixes to fix comments and some other things

1.3.0

Added coloring for .yml loc files after being pestered by my lead dev and another dev for the mod I work on.

1.3.1

Fixed loc highlighting being broken if you had a colon after the loc string (e.x. having # TODO: at the end of the line)

1.3.2

Fixed an issue where three number states would be highlighted with the color of tags. (Hid pre 1.2.0 updates to condense Release Notes)

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Credits

This extension takes heavy inspiration from Thomas Boby's Paradox Syntax Highlighting, credit to him for being the reason I started making this.