VSCode extension for NMTRAN (NONMEM)

A Visual Studio Code extension with support for the NMTRAN language used in NONMEM control streams.

Requirements

VSCode v1.80.0+

Installation

To install the extension, open the Extensions view, search for nonmem to filter results and select the NMTRAN extension.

Programmatic Language Features

• Diagnostics
• Code completion proposals
• Hover info

Declarative Language Features

• Comment toggling using the VS Code command Toggle Line Comment
• Folding (by control records)
• Bracket matching
• Bracket autoclosing
• Bracket autosurrounding

Syntax Highlighting

By tokenization according to TextMate 1.5.1 naming conventions

Snippet Completion

Snippets

• Subroutine selection
  • ADVAN and TRANS
• Modify $DATA on-the-fly (Credit: Simon Buatois)
• RUV (normal or log-scale)
  • RUV_add
  • RUV_prop
  • RUV_addprop
• Creating an Xpose-friendly $TABLE scaffold (just type $TABLE).
• MIXTURE-models (just type $MIX)
  • 2-way mixture model
  • 3-way mixture model
• Including IIV on a parameter that is bound between 0 and 1 (type logit_iiv).
• Baseline modeling (B1, B2, B3, B4) Dansirikul et al., 2008
• BQL modeling (M3) Beal, 2001

Development

Building the Extension

This extension uses esbuild for bundling. There are two build systems:

1. TypeScript Compilation (npm run compile) - Compiles to server/out and client/out
2. Bundling (npm run build) - Bundles everything to dist/ for the extension to use

Important: Always use npm run build before testing your changes! The extension loads from dist/, not from the TypeScript output directories.

Development Workflow

1. Make your changes to TypeScript files
2. Run npm run build to bundle the extension
3. Press F5 to launch the Extension Development Host
4. Test your changes

For continuous development, you can use:

• npm run bundle:watch - Watches and rebuilds the client bundle
• npm run compile:watch - Watches TypeScript files (useful for type checking)

Contributing

Your contribution to the project is encouraged. You can report issues and post suggestions of features via GitHub issues. Thank you!

License

MIT