SWMF Configuration

This is a Visual Studio Code extension and should be installed from the VS Code extensions marketplace

This extension provides syntax highlighting, outline view, breadcrumbs, and some code completion for Space Weather Modelling Framework (SWMF) configuration files, such as the BATSRUS PARAM.in file. The rules are based on the SWMF manual section 3.2.2.

Automatically highlights files ending in .in and .IN.

Features

• Syntax highlighting;
• Hierarchical document tree in the outline view;
• Breadcrumbs support;
• Toggle comment using ! as comment character;
• Code folding between #BEGIN_COMP and #END_COMP markers;
• Autoclosing of #BEGIN_COMP.

Installation

This is a Visual Studio Code extension. It is best installed from the on-line extensions marketplace, or from inside VS Code Preferences/Extensions and search for swmf-grammar.

Alternatively, the extension can be built and installed manually as in the next section.

Manual installation from source code

This should only be required for developers.

1. Clone the repository and enter into the folder

   git clone git@github.com:svaberg/SWMF-grammar.git
   cd SWMF-grammar
   

2. Install the required packages with npm

   npm install
   

3. Create a package using vsce

   vsce package
   

   This should generate a swmf-grammar-?.?.?.vsix file in the current directory.

4. Manually install the extension in VS Code (you may want to replace the wildcards in the version number)

   code --install-extension swmf-grammar-?.?.?.vsix
   

To test the installation, open the current folder in VS Code

code .

and view the file demo.in.