Danmacom

Features

Danmacom is an extension for livecoding in VSCode. It turns chat messages into comments. Whenever a message like /README:5 Test appears, it finds a file with a name that contains README, and puts a comment on the line 5:

It also gathers messages into a terminal, and puts a status bar icon which shows the terminal on click, and also shows a 'notification count'. Click the icon or press space or enter in terminal to clear the count.

Backend

Danmacom has a built-in backend for Bilibili, and can also use an external program to receive messages. The protocol is considered internal, but it is currently as follows:

• stderr is logged but otherwise ignored
• Each line in stdout is parsed as JSON and should contain
  • author: Name of the author
  • face: URL to avatar icon
  • content: Text of message

To use the built-in Bilibili backend, use these settings, and use your room id for liveId:

"danmacom.backend": "bilibili",
"danmacom.backendConfig": {
    "liveId": 123456,
}

To use the example external backend, use these settings, and use your room id for the argument. -u is important to avoid buffering.

"danmacom.backend": "external",
"danmacom.backendConfig": {
    "cmd": "python3 -u /path/to/danmaku.py 123456"
}

Chatroom usage

Starting a thread: /keyword[:line] comment

• keyword is any substring of file name, matched case-insensitively, and it works as long as it uniquely identifies a file
• line is a line number, starting from 1
• If you specify a line number, the comment will be attached to that line. Otherwise it's attached to the file.

Example:

• /README:5 This is a test will put This is a test at line number 5 of the file whose name has README in it
• /README This is a test will put the comment in the same file, but at the top
• /README:1 This is a test is also at the top of the file, but is considered a separate thread.

Threads: Each file/line comment or just file comment is assigned a thread, and a thread is identified by a number. Threads are automatically created with its first comment. You can see the thread number at the code lens of that line, or in the opened comments view.

To append to a thread, use /num comment, where num is all digits. (This takes precedence over /file comment. If you really want to use an all-digits keyword, use /123:.) Using an identical /file or /file:line has the same effect as using the thread number.

Examples

• /1 This is a test will append This is a test to thread 1.