Pep/8 Assembly Language Extension

Language support for the Pep/8 assembly language.

This project is based on the Pep/9 Assembly Language Extension made by Isaac Corbrey (icorbrey on GitHub), and on the Pep Highlighter regex's from the PEP/8 software, made by Stan Warford himself (StanWarford on GitHub).

It mainly consists of only a few modifications to support the differences in Pep/8 mnemonics and directives. Here is a non-exhaustive list of additions and modifications to pep9:

• CHARI and CHARO highlighting added.
• RET0 to RET7 highlighting added.
• Trace tags (in comments) highlighting added.
• Symbols highlighting corrected.
• Memory instructions (LDr, LDBYTEr, STr, STBYTEr) corrected.
• Traps instructions highlighting betterized.
• Etc.

Features

• Adds basic language support to Visual Studio Code for the Pep/8 assembly language (still 🤷‍♂️) used in (some) Computer Systems college courses.

• Adds folding markers as comments to make long code easier to read. How to use them :

  • Start: use these exact symbols ;§> in a comment that starts at the beginning of a line. You can then add any other character as in a normal comment.
  • End: use these exact symbols ;§< in a comment that starts at the beginning of a line. You can then add any other character as in a normal comment.

  A start marker without a corresponding end marker will not allow code folding in Visual Studio Code.

  Unfolded :

  

  Folded :

  

  You can edit them directly in the source code of the extension which is located in the Visual Studio Code user folder (C:\Users\<yourUserName>\.vscode\extensions\deagrut.pep8-asm-X.X.X > folding{} > markers {} for Windows, please refer to the official documentation for other OS's), but any update for this extension will erase these personnalization due to the structure of Language Support extensions.

Release Notes

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.