Eclipse ESC Tools

# ESC Language Support

Official Visual Studio Code language support for **ESC**, the Eclipse scripting language by **Jergan Studio**.

## Features

- `.esc` file support
- ESC syntax highlighting
- ESC commands
- `draw` command highlighting
- Strings
- Numbers
- Variables
- Constants
- Functions
- Operators
- Comments
- Bracket matching
- Automatic closing brackets
- Code folding

## ESC Commands

The extension currently recognizes these ESC commands:

```text
set
echo
alert
broadcast
call
draw
print
input
wait
spawn
stop

ESC Control Keywords

if
else
elseif
end
repeat
while
break
continue

ESC Function Keywords

func
function

Variable Keywords

var
let
const

Boolean / Null Values

true
false
null
nil

Operators

=
+
-
*
/
%
==
===
!=
!==
<
>
<=
>=
++
--
+=
-=
*=
/=
&&
||
!

Comments

Line comment

// This is a comment
echo "Hello"

Block comment

/*
   This is a block comment.
*/
echo "Hello"

Example ESC Program

set player = "Eclipse"

echo player

draw player

if player == "Eclipse"
    alert "Welcome to Eclipse!"
end

repeat 5
    draw player
    echo "Drawing player"
end

func hello
    echo "Hello from ESC!"
end

call hello

File Extension

ESC uses:

.esc

Project Structure

esc-vscode/
├── package.json
├── language-configuration.json
├── esc.tmLanguage.json
└── README.md

Testing

Open the extension folder in VS Code:

code .

Press:

F5

This opens an Extension Development Host.

Create:

test.esc

VS Code should automatically detect the file as ESC.

Packaging

Install the VS Code Extension Manager:

npm install -g @vscode/vsce

Then package the extension:

vsce package

This creates:

esc-language-support-0.2.0.vsix

Install it with:

code --install-extension esc-language-support-0.2.0.vsix

Repository

ESC is part of the Eclipse project:

https://github.com/jergan-studio/Eclipse

Future Features

Planned improvements include:

ESC autocomplete
ESC snippets
ESC diagnostics
ESC compiler integration
Run ESC files from VS Code
Go to definition
Hover documentation
ESC formatter
ESC debugger
Language Server Protocol support

License

MIT License

jerganstudio