microsoft / microsoft/vscode-custom-data
Suggestion: Ability to define custom elements that support RAWTEXT/PLAINTEXT content like script/style
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
I've been working on a VS Code extension for Ecmarkup, which is an HTML-based dialect. However, there is a case where I've run into issues with the html language service and have spent far too much time trying to build a custom embedded language service just to work around. In Ecmarkup, there is a tag that is essentially treated like RAWTEXT in the same way that a <style> or <script> tag might be parsed: <emu-grammar>. The contents of this tag are essentially a different language mode with custom syntax based on Grammarkdown.
Unfortunately, there's no way to indicate such a tag should be parsed in this way, and as a result I've had to essentially fork the html language service and implement a custom parser to work around this case.
I'd imagine something like this:
{
"tags": [
{ "name": "style", "content": "rawtext", ... }
]
}
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the repository's custom data format documentation and sample, then review how the HTML language service handles script/style content and custom tags. Determine the supported shape for declaring RAWTEXT or PLAINTEXT elements and verify that an Ecmarkup-style custom element receives the intended language mode without a fork.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html, javascript, json
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100