vscode-epics, EYE (Enlight Your Epics)

This VS Code extension provides syntax highlighting for EPICS database, template, substitutions and startup files, and streamdevice prototype files.

Features

• [x] Syntax highlighting for:
  • [x] database and template files (.db, .dbd and .template)
  • [x] substitutions files (.substitutions, .sub, and .subs)
  • [x] startup files (.cmd and .iocsh)
  • [x] streamdevice prototype files (.proto)
  • [x] SNL files (.st extensions are considered as .c extension and some keywords are highlighted)

• [ ] Snippets for:
  • [x] database and template files (.db and .template)
  • [x] substitutions files (.substitutions, .sub, and .subs)
  • [x] startup files (.cmd and .iocsh)
  • [x] C source code
  • [ ] streamdevice prototype files (.proto)
  • [x] SNL files (over charge of your .c extension)
  • [x] we-test (scenario and suite)

• [ ] Compilation facilities

• [ ] Linter for:

  • [ ] database and template files
  • [ ] substitutions files
  • [ ] startup files
  • [ ] streamdevice prototype files
  • [ ] SNL files

get all the fields of the EPICS database

• ".db": to select .dbd and .dbd.pod files
• commun:

$ cat <path_to_epics-base>/src/ioc/db/*.db*  | grep 'field(' | tr "(," " " | awk '{print $2}' | tr "\n" "|" | sed 's/.$//'

• specific:

$ cat <path_to_epics-base>/src/std/rec/*.db* | grep 'field(' | tr "(," " " | awk '{print $2}' | tr "\n" "|" | sed 's/.$//'

Requirements

VS Code 1.5 or newer version.

Extension Settings

None yet!

Known Issues

Every field types are not recognized yet, only the more commons.

Credits

• Snippets are mainly coming from language-epics Atom plugin, agaget and vnadot.
• get all the fields of the EPICS database trick is coming from atzvetkov
• should add contributor names here (todo)

to do

• issues