F# interactive helpers

Easier movement and code selection when working with F# interactive.

Available in the Visual Studio Marketplace

Features

Demo video

Select top level form

This command tries to select top level form that encapsulate current cursor position.

It is useful when you make an edit inside longer function / type definition / data pipeline and you want to reevaluate it in FSI.

Go to current/previous/next top level form

This commands navigate to start of current/previous/next top level form from current cursor position.

They are useful for fluent code navigation.

Default bindings

• Select top level form: Alt + \
• Go to previous top level form: Alt + '
• Go to current top level form: Alt + [
• Go to next top level form: Alt + ]

Requirements

This is not a requirement, but this extension works best with Ionide extension, especially the default bindings are convenient when used with default Ionide binding for sending selection to FSI.

Known Issues

Currently code navigation is not using AST, but is based on string matching. Because of that it might not be 100% correct, especially with poorly/weirdly formatted code.

Release Notes

0.0.1

• Initial release

0.0.2

• Update README

0.0.3

• Fix CHANGELOG
• Add demo video