NextBASIC VSCode Syntax

ZX Spectrum NextBASIC syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code.

vscode-nextbasic demo

Video: how to setup your NextBASIC dev workflow

This video installation walk through is shown on a Mac but is the same process for Windows and Linux: Watch on YouTube

Supports 2.08+ NextBASIC syntax
Import and export binary NextBASIC files
Full NextBASIC syntax, including new ; comment support
Jump to definition for GO TO and PROC statements
Symbol lookup (for DEFPROC and DEF FN)
Renumbering for whole doc, selected lines or line swap
Simple syntax validator
Indentation support
ctrl/cmd+enter will insert a new line with line number pre-populated
Format on edit and format full document
Collapse DEFPROC
Help on hover
Export to .bas as +3DOS format or .tap
Support directives: #autostart n, #autoline n,m, #program str and custom #define key=value (and replaces #key instances in BASIC)
Support for #bank and #bankfile to auto split your code in both "run with cspect" and "export"

Prerequisites:

Install Cspect (see right hand sidebar)
Install hdfmonkey (ideally stored in $PATH) (Windows version here) - version 0.4 (0.3 apparently gives errors)
(MacOS only) Install mono via brew install mono

Important Windows users ensure you use the hdfmonkey build from uto.speccy.org (link above) - it's built without cygwin as a dependency.

Update nextbasic configuration in VS Code, which requires the location of cspect.exe (yes, even on a Mac) and the Next img file.

Video explanation coming soon.

Note that using NextBASIC: run with cspect will overwrite your autoexec.bas file on the cspect image.

Credit to Rob Uttley for solving the autoexec and #autostart.

Credit to @kounch for their superb original work on vscode_zx (cspect, ZEsarUX and zxbasic - BASIC to asm support)

Original syntax based specifically on the work by jsanjose - and modified to specifically support NextBASIC.