VSCode extension for syntax highlighting multi-line YAML strings

https://github.com/harrydowning/vscode-yaml-embedded-languages

by moondev • 12 months ago

29 16 12 months ago

mdaniel2• 12 months ago

I don't understand why VSCode itself doesn't already have this, since it is silly to have to install 100 extensions to add this behavior to every different possible place that a string literal with an interior language could appear

I also suspect that unlike the JetBrains feature that does this (Language Injection), VSCode doesn't understand the code it just syntax highlights it. Meaning if we take the cited example and change it to the following, would VSCode turn it red?

  example3: | # js
    console.ogl('wat")

9dev4• 12 months ago

Oh neat! Finally VS Code can do something IntelliJ has been able to do since decades. We’re so close to discovering why IDEs were a good idea in the first place!

IshKebab4• 12 months ago

VSCode is an IDE. It's just a highly modular one, so it doesn't come with everything by default.

mdaniel2• 12 months ago

I believe the splitting of hairs is that plugins should build on top of core, solid, helpful primitives, and augment the core platform with esoteric things that the core audience wouldn't care about. That's not this plugin

It also pragmatically makes for fragmentation in the experience, leading to the same outcome as the current LLM debate: "works great" "not for me"

xigoi2• 12 months ago

Why an IDE? Vim can do such things just fine.

9dev4• 12 months ago

Because I prefer an interface that isn't constrained to 70 year old typewriter conventions, thank you very much.

IshKebab4• 12 months ago

I pity whoever needs this.

imcritic• 12 months ago

Who (and in which valid cases) embeds some block of code in a programming language as a value to some key in a YAML file??

nothrabannosir• 12 months ago

GitHub actions

conception• 12 months ago

Roo code too

VSCode extension for syntax highlighting multi-line YAML strings

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