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lua-for-vscode

lua-for-vscode

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support go to defintion and List Document Symbols.
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lua for vscode

Together to improve this extension GitHub.

Features

support lua4.x upvalue
Goto Definition (function and some variable)
List Document Symbols (now only list function)

About lua version

default for lua 5.x

if you use 4.x need set luaforvscode.luaversion to 4

Set your lua path and include keyword

if you want find defintion from other files, you need set the lua path to workspace settings
file search ?, ?.lua, $luapath/?,$luapath/?.lua, $workspaceroot/?, $workspaceroot/?.lua
workspace settings

{
    "luaforvscode.luapath":"C:\\Project;C:\\luapath2",
    "luaforvscode.includekeyword":"Include,Require,require,dofile,include",
    "luaforvscode.luaversion":4
} 

test1.lua
here search $luapath/script/test2.lua, $workspaceroot/script/test2.lua, /script/test2.lua

Include("\\script\\test2.lua") --or Require("\\script\\test2.lua") or dofile("\\script\\test2.lua") later you can custom this keyword 
main()

test2.lua

function main()
end

Goto Definition

Example

List Document Symbols

Goto Definition

Issue

not support this case now, because hard to know what's type tbsub and the type of tb.new return
if you have a solution please tell me, thanks

tb = {}
function tb:new()
    return tb
end
function tb:dofunc()
end

tbsub = tb:new()

tbsub:dofunc()

Change Log

Version 0.0.23
reduce disturbing user
change lua error from vscode.windows to output( view->output)
parsing script when frist time go to definition or show symbol
parsing script when save document

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