Here string intellisense completion and indentation

[DarkLite1]

In the editor here strings are not correctly completed and indented. some expamples:

This is very annoying when working with HTML strings.

$pseditor.EditorServicesVersion
Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
1      8      4      0

Version: 1.28.0-insider (user setup)
Commit: a3f9f2e7240106aeec2f1d4bc03d7876bd42e2e4
Date: 2018-09-07T05:20:29.346Z
Electron: 2.0.7
Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
Node.js: 8.9.3
V8: 6.1.534.41
Architecture: x64

[TylerLeonhardt]

Yep. This is a duplicate of #181. We just haven't had cycles to address the problem.

I would think one would just need to send a PR to VSCode itself and add to this
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/extensions/powershell/language-configuration.json#L11

But I haven't tried it.

[DarkLite1]

Maybe @aeschli can have a look? It would be great if this could be fixed.

[TylerLeonhardt]

btw anyone should be able to play around with this. The file should be located here:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\extensions\powershell\language-configuration.json

(I'm on a mac so it's slightly different /Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/powershell/language-configuration.json)

Try adding ["@'", "'@"] - and if that doesn't work, as a test, remove the { "open": "'", "close": "'", "notIn": ["string", "comment"]},

If that works, we should get some guidance from @aeschli on how we can have both of these entries in the langauge-configuration.json as autoClosingPairs

[DarkLite1]

Thanks for the help @tylerl0706 . I've tried your suggestion:

C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\extensions\powershell\language-configuration.json

{
	"comments": {
		"lineComment": "#",
		"blockComment": [ "<#", "#>" ]
	},
	"brackets": [
		["{", "}"],
		["[", "]"],
		["(", ")"],
		["@'", "'@"]
	],
	"autoClosingPairs": [
		["{", "}"],
		["[", "]"],
		["(", ")"],
		{ "open": "\"", "close": "\"", "notIn": ["string"]},
		["<#", "#>"],
		["@'", "'@"]
	],
	"surroundingPairs": [
		["{", "}"],
		["[", "]"],
		["(", ")"],
		["\"", "\""],
		["'", "'"],
		["@'", "'@"]
	],
	"folding": {
		"markers": {
			"start": "^\\s*#[rR]egion\\b",
			"end": "^\\s*#[eE]nd[rR]egion\\b"
		}
	}
}

Nothing changed. After restarting VS Code Insiders it even threw an error that the PowerShell extension crashed. But that hasn't happened anymore after the first time.

[rkeithhill]

Try modifying just this section:

    "autoClosingPairs": [
        ["{", "}"],
        ["[", "]"],
        ["(", ")"],
        ["@'", "\n'@"],
        ["@\"", "\n\"@"],
        ["<#", "#>"],
    ],

That works for me but now you lose auto-close of "" and ''. :-(

[TylerLeonhardt]

Yep. I get the same thing as @rkeithhill.

So I think we should open an issue on vscode for guidance.

[rkeithhill]

If both types of closing pairs (here string & normal string) could be made to work, this would be a nice enhancement.

[TylerLeonhardt]

Opened this microsoft/vscode#58619

[TylerLeonhardt]

@rkeithhill I agree 100%. 😄