MiniScript is a simple, elegant language for embedding or learning to program. It is the language of the Mini Micro and is also available as a 3rd party scripting language for Unity.
This repository contains an extension for Microsoft's VS Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) to provide syntax highlighting and language support for MiniScript. The tmLanguage syntax definition may or may not work in other editors too; you are most welcome to use it for developing extensions for those!
Provides basic syntax highlighting for VS Code.
The easiest way to get the extension is to search 'miniscript' in VS Code's extension tab, or install it from the Visual Studio Marketplace. If you would like to do local development on the extension, or if you prefer not to install from the marketplace, you can do a local install from this git repository instead.
To get your extension running in VS Code, checkout the entire miniscript-syntax folder under your local extensions folder:
- Windows: %USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions
- macOS/Linux: $HOME/.vscode/extensions
To check it's working, try opening "Example1.ms" from the examples folder.
If you would like to contribute ideas, code, bug reports etc, please do. I am pretty busy with 4 kids and a full-time job, and maintaining this extension in my (very limited) spare time, but I will endeavour to respond to any issues/PRs as quickly as possible.
Bug/issue reports and feature requests are welcome! Please take a look at the issues on the github repository and feel free to add your input if someone else has already reported the same thing, or create a new issue if you can't find one already!
Pull requests are also very welcome! At some point we will hopefully have a more in-depth contributor guide as well.
The source repository for this highlighter is here: https://github.com/chaos95/miniscript-syntax
The MiniScript Discord server is quite active and you will find some lovely helpful people there: https://discord.gg/3dvH5FRN
The MiniScript Unity forum thread is here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/miniscript-lightweight-scripting-language-for-your-game.373853/
A big thank you to Colin MacLeod for creating the first version of this extension, and for MIT licensing it so I could continue to maintain it in his stead: https://bitbucket.org/colinmac/miniscript-syntax