On 7/28/2020 6:51 AM, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> I am installing the Windows version of ConTeXt, which comes with a
> VSCode extension, in
>
>     <ConTeXt>\tex\texmf-context\context\data\vscode\extensions
>
>
> with instructions to run (from within the VSCode terminal):
>
>     code -- extensions-dir <above directory> -- install-extension context
>
>
> The trouble is that the current ConTeXt installation (as of 65 minutes
> ago), doesn't seem to contain an extension in the format that VSCode
> understands.  Running that command produces the errors:
>
>     Installing extensions...
>     Extension 'context' not found.
>     Make sure you use the full extension ID, including the publisher,
>     e.g.: ms-dotnettools.csharp
>     Failed Installing Extensions: context:
>
>
> For what it's worth, I'm running VSCode 1.46.0.
>
> How can I install the VSCode ConTeXt extension?
Here i just run this (seems to work with latest update):

data/context/vscode-context.cmd

(I only occasionally check vscode and will look into it again when there
is easy suffix dependent runner support. Of course I do generate the
syntax files.)

Hans


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