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vscode-tabl-ddic
A VS Code extension that registers .tabl.ddic files, the DDIC DDL form of an ABAP table definition, as a language of their own with a TextMate grammar for syntax highlighting, and nothing more.
Without a language registered for the file extension, a .tabl.ddic file opens in VS Code as plain text, with define table, the abap.* built-in types and the @AbapCatalog annotations all rendered the same. This registers .tabl.ddic as a language of its own, abap.ddic, and binds a TextMate grammar to it under the scope source.ddic. The manifest contributes that language and that grammar and nothing more: no completion, no validation, no connection to a system. What the grammar is written against is the example the repository ships and runs its snapshot test over, examples/zdemo_syntax.tabl.ddic, which covers key fields, foreign key and value help clauses, quantity and unit references, includes, namespaced types and line and block comments; the README names SAP's ABAP documentation for DEFINE TABLE as the reference for that syntax.
Facts
Last pushLicenceMIT
Where it sits
Lives in
Provides
Editor supportABAPEditor supportWorking in source code with the editor helping rather than treating it as text — completion, go-to-definition, inline errors, refactoring and preview.
Who is behind it
Before choosing this
Conditions
PracticalFunctional boundary
It declares a VS Code engine and binds to the .tabl.ddic file extension, so it does nothing for a table definition opened in another editor, or read from a system rather than from a file on disk.
What it declares
Every artifact
- Type
- IDE extension
- Origin
- By a community org
As an IDE extension
- Installs into
- VS Code
- Distributed through
- does not say
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NodeRelationBasis
Functional
Editor supportEditor supportEditor help with source: completion, navigation, errors, refactoringSAP and community, narrow by design
provides
declared
provides Editor support
Colours ABAP DDIC table definition source in VS Code, by registering .tabl.ddic as the language abap.ddic and binding a TextMate grammar to it.
“vscode tabl.ddic syntax highlighting”“"description": "ABAP TABL DDIC Syntax Hightligting"”“"id": "abap.ddic"”“"scopeName": "source.ddic"”
Editor help with source: completion, navigation, errors, refactoring
Download
README
quoted from abaplint/vscode-tabl-ddic under MIT, readabaplint/vscode-tabl-ddic/README.mdthe maintainer’s wordsOn GitHub
vscode-tabl-ddic
vscode tabl.ddic syntax highlighting
https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_753_index_htm/7.53/en-US/abenddicddl_define_table.htm
Development
Press F5 to launch the extension host and open a .tabl.ddic file,
for example examples/zdemo_syntax.tabl.ddic.
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