Stardew Syntax provides syntax highlighting for Stardew Valley's dialogue and events.
Syntax highlighting is applied to files with either the .sdvevent or .sdvdialogue extensions.
Syntax highlighting is also applied to strings in .json/.jsonc files that match Stardew Valley's event syntax.
Readable Formatting
A formatter is provided to make events more readable, as well as convert them back to the inline format.
There are two ways to do this.
The easy method:
Click on an event string inside a JSON file.
Use Ctrl + Shift + P to open the command palette.
Search for Stardew Syntax: Open Line as SDVEvent.
Alternatively, select the entire event string (excluding the quotes) and use Stardew Syntax: Open Selection as SDVEvent.
The manual method:
Copy an event string from a JSON file and paste it into an empty .sdvevent file.
Run the document formatter:
Either use the Shift + Alt + F shortcut to format the document.
Or use Ctrl + Shift + P to open the command palette and search for Format Document.
The event will cleanly be broken up into multiple lines.
JSON Formatting
A multi-line event file can be converted back to the inline format used in JSON files with the convert-to-inline command.
Open a .sdvevent file.
Use Ctrl + Shift + P to open the command palette.
Search for Stardew Syntax: Convert SDVEvent to Inline Format.
After running the command, the entire line can be selected with Ctrl + A and copied.
