shell-heredoc README

shell-heredoc is a VS Code extension that provides syntax highlighting within bash/shell heredocs based on the delimiter tag.

#!/bin/bash
/bin/cat << 'JSON'
{ "status": "active", "count": 42 }
JSON

Features

This extension automatically detects and highlights code within heredoc blocks using the following delimiter mappings:

Simply use heredocs in your shell scripts with one of the supported delimiters:

cat << SQL
SELECT name, email
FROM users
WHERE active = true;
SQL

This extension currently does not contribute any configurable settings.

Enjoy enhanced shell scripting with proper syntax highlighting!