VS Code support for ticbuild

This is a VS Code extension adding some syntax highlighting to support ticbuild.

ticbuild is a build system for TIC-80, and it adds preprocessor support to the Lua programming language.

Links

• TIC-80 homepage
• ticbuild on Github
• ticbuild_vscode on Github (this project)
• Discord
• Somatic - web-based TIC-80 music tracker

This project is free, a labor of love; if you find it useful, please support by spreading the word or,

Installation

# install from command line
code --install-extension ./ticbuild-preproc-highlight-0.0.1.vsix

Usage

Upon installing & enabling this, you should see highlighting:

Building

# create package
npx @vscode/vsce package

Make certain it's really updated in case of updates/reinstall

(mostly for development)

You can use --force to code --install-extension, however most reliable is to:

1. in vs code, extensions, open the page for this extension. uninstall it.
2. click on the little size (2.14kb) hyperlink; it opens the dir where it is on disk. Delete its folder.