StructuredText Language Package for ATOM

ATOM support for IEC 61131-3 Structured Text and Automation Studio (AS) projects including syntax highlighting, snippets, and auto-completion.

Features

Syntax Highlighting

• Comments (inline //, block (* *))
• Keywords
  • Statement-flow (IF, ELSE, CASE, FOR, ...)
  • Operators (AND, OR, <, >, +, -, ...)
  • Storage (PROGRAM, FUNCTION, VAR, TYPE, ...)
• Strings 'Hello Word!'
• Numbers 16#ff, 75.0, T#250ms
• Function & Function Block calls strcpy()
• Structure members System.Parameters
• User constants IN_TO_MM (all uppercase)

Snippets

• cm - Block comment
• if - If statement
• else - If else statement
• elsif - If, else, elsif statement
• for - For loop
• case - Case statement
• while - While loop
• repeat - Repeat loop
• fn - Function definition
• fb - Function block definition
• prog - Program definition

Auto-Complete

• Auto-capitalization
  • Sets keywords to all caps when cursor changes line in text editor

Installation

Install the latest release,

apm install language-as-structured-text

or clone the repository for the latest changes.

git clone https://github.com/tmatijevich/language-as-structured-text.git

Link as a development package with ATOM to make custom changes.

apm link -d

Then run ATOM in development mode.

atom -d

Plugins

I recommend the following add-on packages for programming in ATOM

• highlight-selected
• minimap
  • minimap-find-and-replace
  • minimap-hightlight-selected
• multi-cursor
• sort-lines
• split-diff
• tabs-to-spaces

Upcoming

• Autocomplete provider of variables, types, and functions