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PickBasic

PickBasic

TravisHaley

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Pick Basic Syntax Highlighting and language support
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Pick Basic Syntax Highlighter for VS Code

This simple syntax highlighter uses Jacob Bennett's sublime TextMate pick highlighting and packages it for visual studio code

Recommended VSCode Theme Monokai

Version 1.0

  • Imported TextMate highlighting and packaged for VS Code
  • Updated comment and bracket matching in package.json
  • updated README

Version 1.1

  • Added EQ, LT, GT operators
  • Added bracket matching

Version 1.1.1

  • Added support for ! comments
  • Updated comment matching to not include * and ! used in strings
  • Added support for Code Folding via !REGION and !ENDREGION (can also use *REGION and *ENDREGION)
  • Added auto closing pairs for region declarations

Version 1.1.2

  • Added support for SUBROUTINE and CALL SUBROUTINE
  • Highlight lines where control-break logic starts
  • Improve quoted string identification

Installation

Inside VSCode from the command pallet Install Extension -> PickBasic

Credit

Thanks for the original work done by Jacob Bennett to get this working for sublime. This would not be possible without his work.

https://github.com/JacobBennett/sublime-pickbasic

Contributors

  • @mallek
  • @jordonbrill
  • @itsxallwater

Enjoy!

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