Automate VSCode Extension
This is the ESR Automate Textual Language support plugin for Visual Studio Code. ESR Labs Automate - a lightweight yet powerful approach to AUTOSAR software development.
Getting Started
Syntax highlighting works out-of-the-box. For other features ESR Automate RText service is required. How to configure the RText service see the ESR Automate User Manual, Chapter Editor Back-End Service. Basically you have to create the .rtext configuration file with the command for the *.atm file extension.
*.atm:
automate-rtext-service <args...>
IMPORTANT: The .rtext file must be located in the opened workspace folder together with *.atm files. Otherwise, the RText service will not be started.
Features
- Automate Textual syntax highlighting.
- Auto-completion of language commands and command attributes.
- Improved navigation, developers can follow references across files and jump backward to source elements.
- Navigate symbols in workspace.
- Manage RText service connections.
Syntax Highlighting
The ESR Automate VSCode extension add a new language identifier Automate and associate it with .atm files to support the syntax highlighting. However, you may try to use it with another RText based language, to do this run the the Change Language Mode command (Ctrl+K M) and select the Automate language for the file.
Connection Management
The extension provides a status bar indicator to show the number of the running RText service instances. Click on the indicator to see the list of the connections. Use the item Restart button to restart a connection.
Navigation
Link References
Use Ctrl+click on link references to navigate between model elements. This feature does not work with short references, but you can use the Go to References instead.
Find All References
Execute Find All References (Alt+Shift+F12) or a Go to References search (via Shift+F12) to see the result inline.
Open Symbol By Name
Support jumping to a symbol across files with Ctrl+T. Type the first letter of a type you want to navigate to, regardless of which file contains it, and press Enter.
Auto-completion
Use Ctrl+space to show the completion list.
Requirements
- RText service is part of the ESR Labs Automate product and it's required for some features. Get Automate.
Extension Settings
This extension contributes the following settings:
automate.enable: enable/disable this extensionautomate.useRTextServer: enable/disable Automate RText service
Visual Studio Marketplace
This extension is available on the Visual Studio Marketplace for Visual Studio Code.
Questions, issues and contributions
- If you come across a problem with the extension, please file an issue
- If you have a question about how to work with the extension, please contact Maksim Danilov
