Codist 8.0 Beta

[wmjordan]

This is a very early stage of the new version of Codist 8.

Download

Codist 10052

Codist 10033
Codist 10003
Codist 9988
Codist 9978
Codist 9961

What's New

• Transform Markdown Document 🆕
  This new feature can turn markdown document into an HTML document, or perform XSLT against the XHTML document generated from a markdown document
• General
  • Display information about scoped variables or parameters introduced in C# 11
• Syntax Highlight
  • Custom syntax highlight (see Wiki page) 🆕 (9978)
  • Highlights Output window pane 🆕 Details in the Wiki page (Suggestion: Set output line colors by rules #184)
  • Possible to export all syntax styles (including default ones defined in VS) ([Feature request] Ability to 'export' colors to the VS color settings #313) 🆕
  • Fix an issue which caused C# tagger from quitting unexpectedly when "Copy rich text on copy/cut" option enabled (Code Coloring fails on Copy (Ctrl+C) #333)
  • Improve performance of markdown tagger and comment tagger
  • Special highlight of parameters in primary constructor, local function and lambda expression 🆕
• Smart Bar
  • New command to extract lines containing selection into a new document 🆕
  • New option of capitalization (Ctrl: convert snail separated expressions to capitalized symbols) 🆕
  • New command to decode numeric markup entities 🆕
  • Prevent VS from crashing when command throws exception
• Super Quick Info
  • Display more info about selected single character 🆕
  • Improve display of <code> and <hr> in C# XML Doc ([Feature] Quick Info 给 xml <code><example> 代码提供语法着色和外框 #326)
  • Display children count for ListPattern, CollectionExpression and SwitchExpression
  • Fix implementation match for generic interface
• Navigation Bar
  • A new button to copy markdown titles 🆕
• Scrollbar Marker
  • Don't crash VS if marker rendition fails
• Auto Build Version
  • Fix build version in target asssembly is sometimes not updated (版本自动生成器时机问题 #337)

[wmjordan]

Beta 9978 allows us to define our own set of regular expressions to highlight our documents.

Here's an example of extra highlight of a markdown file.

[wmjordan]

Beta 9988 adds syntax highlight support for parameters in C# primary constructors.

[fitdev]

Discovered a small issue with Super Quick Info.

When a type implements a static method with generic type parameters, hovering over the implementation does not list the corresponding Interface and Interface's static abstract member being implemented:

interface ISomething<This, TNum> where This : ISomething<This, TNum> where TNum : unmanaged, INumber<TNum> {
  static abstract This CreateFromOtherNumber<TNumOther>(TNumOther a, TNumOther b) where TNumOther : unmanaged, INumber<TNumOther>;
}

struct Something : ISomething<Something, int> {
  // Hovering over CreateFromOtherNumber member does NOT show that it is an implementation of ISomething<This, TNum>.CreateFromOtherNumber
  public static Something CreateFromOtherNumber<TNumOther>(TNumOther a, TNumOther b) where TNumOther : unmanaged, INumber<TNumOther> => default;
}

[wmjordan]

@fitdev
Your snippet has syntax error. Generic type named TNum is undefined.
It is not possible to display implementation when the parameter is wrong.

[fitdev]

Sorry that was a typo, it should have been TNumOther there. Then it works. And the issue remains.

[wmjordan]

Sorry that was a typo, it should have been TNumOther there. Then it works. And the issue remains.

The code was still wrong.
You should see the following error if you are running the most recent preview version of VS:

CS0425: The constraints for type parameter 'TNumOther' of method 'Something.CreateFromOtherNumber(TNumOther, TNumOther)' must match the constraints for type parameter 'TNumOther' of interface method 'ISomething<Something, int>.CreateFromOtherNumber(TNumOther, TNumOther)'. Consider using an explicit interface implementation instead.

[fitdev]

I have corrected the code above, I replaced TNum with TNumOther in 2 places:

interface ISomething<This, TNum> where This : ISomething<This, TNum> where TNum : unmanaged, INumber<TNum> {
  static abstract This CreateFromOtherNumber<TNumOther>(TNumOther a, TNumOther b) where TNumOther : unmanaged, INumber<TNumOther>;
}

struct Something : ISomething<Something, int> {
  // Hovering over CreateFromOtherNumber member does NOT show that it is an implementation of ISomething<This, TNum>.CreateFromOtherNumber
  public static Something CreateFromOtherNumber<TNumOther>(TNumOther a, TNumOther b) where TNumOther : unmanaged, INumber<TNumOther> => default;
}

[wmjordan]

@fitdev
Please download and test the new beta.

[tranbinhnghia]

@fitdev Please download and test the new beta.

File not found new version Codist 10003 @wmjordan

[wmjordan]

@tranbinhnghia
Weird!
The download was just updated. Please try again.

[tranbinhnghia]

@tranbinhnghia Weird! The download was just updated. Please try again.

Thank you, I have downloaded the file.

[fitdev]

Thank you for a quick fix! Works great!

[wmjordan]

@fitdev
Please help test it.
I don't know whether this fix can break somewhere else (but limited to implementation Quick Info only).

[wmjordan]

There is a new beta version which supports highlighting the output window pane.

To make it work, please see the Wiki page.

[fitdev]

Please help test it.

The missing interface member implementation mention in the Super Quick Info now displays correctly. Thank you for the fix!

I will let you know if I encounter any issues.

[fitdev]

Just wondering...
Now that VS has released CodeLens API - any plans to use it in Codist?

[wmjordan]

@fitdev
The VisualStudio.Extensibility thing has been out for quite some years, but not yet officially released.

Once it is used, the support to previous VS version (2017 and 2019) will be probably broken. Since I still have VS 2017 installed on my computer and I have not yet find a must-have usage of the new API, I will keep an eye on it, but stick to the old one unless there is enough motivation for me to move to the new onw.

[fitdev]

Thought I would report this just in case...

Syntax highlighting of indexers seems to not work correctly in VS 17.13 P1:

In the first one, only the wrapped portion of a line gets proper highlighting. In the second one nothing is properly highlighted (note the braces, as well as member names).

Also in my style [Attribute]s should be rendered with a smaller font, and here the font is the same.

[wmjordan]

Please download the new beta (10052) which has fixed the issue of index highlight introduced in the previous beta.

[fitdev]

Thank you! Yes the new beta has fixed it!

[fitdev]

BTW: Are there plans to support NaviBar in split document views (right now only one of the split document views is properly reflected in the NaviBar, when switching to another split view NaviBar rmeains unchanged even though the cursor there is in a different type/member)?