Full language support for Virtual C providing syntax highlighting, snippets, bracket matching, folding and IntelliSense. Virtual C is VUEngine's C dialect that adds classes, inheritance and polymorphism to standard C with a similar syntax to that of C++.
Contains the basic language definitions as well as a language server to provide IntelliSense.
- Bracket matching
- Code completion
- Code formatting
- Document symbols
- Folding
- Go to definition
- Signature help
- Snippets
- Syntax highlighting
- Syntax definitions are based on https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/extensions/cpp/syntaxes/cpp.tmLanguage.json, which in turn is based on https://github.com/jeff-hykin/better-cpp-syntax/.
- Uses doxygen for code parsing.
- Uses GNU clang-format for code formatting.
Here's how to run this locally in development mode.
- Make sure to use node 20 or a version of node newer than 22, e.g. with
nvm use 20. - Install dependencies with
npm install. - Open a terminal and start compiling the client and server in watch mode with
npm run watch. - In the Debug view in the sidebar, select
Launch Clientfrom the drop down (if it is not already) and press ▷ to run the launch config (or simply F5). - An Extension Development Host instance of VSCode will start with the language server running.
To package a VSIX file, run
npm run package
To automatically package and publish, the version number in package.json has to be updated and a matching version tag needs to be created and pushed. This will trigger a Github action that will create a new GitHub release.
git tag v{VERSION} && git push --tags