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ABAP Syntax Highlighting
A VS Code extension that registers .abap files as the language abap and colours them with a TextMate grammar.
An .abap file on disk opens in Visual Studio Code as plain text, with nothing to tell a keyword from a comment. This extension contributes the language abap for the file extensions .abap and .ABAP and binds a TextMate grammar to it under the scope source.abap, written from pvl/abap.tmbundle, the TextMate bundle the README names as its basis. The manifest contributes that language and that grammar and nothing more: no completion, no validation, no connection to a system. Token colours are overridden per theme through an editor.tokenColorCustomizations section in settings.json, which is how the README gives a colour to keyword.operator.abap, a scope with no highlighting of its own by default. A comment pair of * #region and * #endregion folds the lines between them and marks them in the minimap.
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Last pushLicenceMIT
Where it sits
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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
Lars HvamLars HvamMaintains this
In the atlas: maintains 13, contributes to 92, wrote 1@larshpmaintainerAlbert MinkContributes to this
In the atlas: maintains 1, contributes to 8@albertminkFrederik HudákContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 4@FreHuMarcello UrbaniContributes to this
In the atlas: maintains 14, contributes to 21@marcellourbani3 contributors
In the atlas: maintains 13, contributes to 92, wrote 1@larshpmaintainerAlbert MinkContributes to this
In the atlas: maintains 1, contributes to 8@albertminkFrederik HudákContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 4@FreHuMarcello UrbaniContributes to this
In the atlas: maintains 14, contributes to 21@marcellourbani3 contributors
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ActivityQuietNo published releases; repository quiet for 27 months
It publishes no releases, and its repository has been quiet for at least 24 full months. This may be normal for stable software; check whether its current state still fits your use.
Conditions
PracticalFunctional boundary
It binds to the .abap and .ABAP file extensions inside Visual Studio Code, so it does nothing for ABAP opened in another editor, or for source read from a system over ADT instead of from a file on disk.
What it declares
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- IDE extension
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- Independently maintained
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Editor supportEditor supportEditor help with source: completion, navigation, errors, refactoringSAP and community, narrow by design
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declared
provides Editor support
Colours ABAP source in Visual Studio Code, by registering .abap and .ABAP as the language abap and binding a TextMate grammar to it under the scope source.abap. It also folds the lines between a * #region and a * #endregion comment and shows that region in the minimap, and its token colours can be overridden per theme in settings.json.
“ABAP syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code”“"id": "abap"”“".abap",”“"scopeName": "source.abap"”“this will make a foldable region, plus show up in the minimap,”“If you want to customize the token colors, add an `editor.tokenColorCustomizations` section to your vscode `settings.json`.”
Editor help with source: completion, navigation, errors, refactoring
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README
quoted from larshp/vscode-abap under MIT, readlarshp/vscode-abap/README.mdthe maintainer’s wordsOn GitHub
vscode-abap
ABAP syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code
Based on https://github.com/pvl/abap.tmbundle
Customization
If you want to customize the token colors, add an editor.tokenColorCustomizations section to your vscode settings.json. The following example will change the color of operators, which have no special highlighting by default:
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Default Dark+]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": "keyword.operator.abap",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#d456b9"
}
}
]
}
}Folding / Regions
Example region,
* #region Hello
WRITE 'test'.
* #endregionthis will make a foldable region, plus show up in the minimap,
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