This repository contains a (work in progress) collection of source code syntax highlight for Visual Studio Code. For information on how to create your custom themes, read Themes, Snippets and Colorizers.
press F5 to open a new window with your extension loaded
open File > Preferences > Color Themes and pick your color theme
Open a file that has a language associated. The languages' configured grammar will tokenize the text and assign 'scopes' to the tokens. To examine these scopes, invoke the Inspect TM Scopes command from the Commmand Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+R on Mac) .
Make changes
you can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after making changes to the files listed above
you can also reload (Ctrl+R or Cmd+R on Mac) the VS Code window with your extension to load your changes
When editing workbench colors, it's easiest to test the colors in the settings under workbench.colorCustomizations. When done, run the Generate Color Theme From Current Settings command to generate an updated content for the color theme definition file.