Pro-D with VSCode 2025-01-28 to 2025-02-07
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 200
On Tuesday January 29, started some basic tutorial material on how to create a VSCode extension. Got as far as creating commands for opening external files, and some way with opening a terminal. This is going to be a slow and steady process.
On Tuesday Feb 3, went through some of this process again on my home computer (WFH), and set up a new GitHub repository in the UVicHCMC space to gather ideas and hints as I work on learning. This time I was able to get a terminal to show up from the an extension command, and run commands in the terminal. This means we’ll be able to provide all the validation and checking functionality we need to from the extension. I’m also now able to add a command to a menu.
On Thursday, did a bit more digging, and realized that much of what we do could be done in hidden terminals, assuming we can get some data back from the terminal.