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Novus Nota edited this page Jun 25, 2024 · 17 revisions

VS Code

Extensions are installed in a per user extensions folder. Depending on your platform, the location is in the following folder:

• Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions • macOS: ~/.vscode/extensions • Linux: ~/.vscode/extensions

(from this page)

Simplest way to reach that folder without going to terminal is via Command Palette in VSCode (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P), then typing Open Extensions Folder.

From there, one can manipulate the installed extensions and even replace some files on the fly.

For example, to get the latest VS Code highlighting in the KonVik's VS Code extension for Tact:

  1. Find it in the extensions folder. On Linux and macOS: ~/.vscode/extensions/konvik.tact-lang-vscode-1.3.0/
  2. Open that folder in the terminal OR a file explorer
  3. Replace the syntaxes/tact.json file with the latest one from the tact-vscode repo. Alternatively, the package/Tact.tmLanguage.json file from tact-sublime can be taken, but make sure to rename it to tact.json when replacing.

To get continuous updates of the said syntax, one may symlink one of those files mentioned above from tact-vscode or tact-sublime repos cloned locally to your extension folder. On Linux and macOS, it would look like this (assuming you've deleted/overwritten the tact.json file locally:

ln -s ~/.vscode/extensions/konvik.tact-lang-vscode-1.3.0/syntaxes/tact.json /place/of/local/tact-vscode/installation/syntaxes/tact.json

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