Vscode extension quality of life changes

[Goju-Ryu]

This PR adds and modifies a few behaviors of the vs-code extension to improve the developer experience. Some changes may be controversial so I will list them here to open a discussion about if some of them should be reverted before merge.

• square brackets are now treated as brackets, allowing for colorization by vs code
• square brackets and angle brackets now auto close the same way normal parenthesis do
• The folding is changed to be based on code indentation¹ (I expect this to be the most controversial)
• Strings with interpolated portions will now highlight the interpolation as with normal code, while the rest of the string gets the usual color of strings.
• Correctly display strings with escaped quotes (\") inside strings

Examples:
Before fold:

After fold:

Examples of interpolations and escaped brackets:

Example with escaped quotation mark:

Footnotes

1. This isn't strictly correct, but aligns with the code style used and in my opinion gives more intuitive folding in the prelude files ↩

[sharkdp]

Awesome — thank you. I'm surprised someone found the VScode extension :-)

[Goju-Ryu]

Awesome — thank you. I'm surprised someone found the VScode extension :-)

I use it heavily when writing code for the prelude. I just decided to read up on how it worked so I could fix the quirks that annoyed me in my own workflow.

This also reminds me, is this extension available for install without running it in debug mode via vs code? I seem to remember reading about a reason it wasn't in the extensions catalog, but when i went looking for where I read it I couldn't find it.

[sharkdp]

This also reminds me, is this extension available for install without running it in debug mode via vs code?

No.

seem to remember reading about a reason it wasn't in the extensions catalog, but when i went looking for where I read it I couldn't find it.

There's no reason except that I never published a VS code extension and I'm afraid it might involve some boring organizational things 😄

[Goju-Ryu]

seem to remember reading about a reason it wasn't in the extensions catalog, but when i went looking for where I read it I couldn't find it.

There's no reason except that I never published a VS code extension and I'm afraid it might involve some boring organizational things 😄

That's honestly very fair. I have looked into it a bit and it requires some setup of accounts and such in Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Market place. It is however also possible to distribute extension packages as standalone vsix files which are installable by code without any marketplace involvement. That looks pretty easy, so I wouldn't mind trying to set it up as a follow up to this PR if you'd like.

[sharkdp]

That would be great — thanks!

[Goju-Ryu]

No problem. Back when I first discovered numbat I was slightly disappointed that I couldn't find where to get the vs code extension, so I’m excited to hopefully make it easier for newcomers in the future.