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Welcome to your VS Code Extension

What's in the folder

This folder contains all of the files necessary for the extension.
package.json - this is the manifest file in which the language support is declared and the location of the grammar files are defined.
syntaxes/xxx.tmLanguage.json - this is a Text mate grammar file that is used for tokenization.

Get up and running straight away

Press F5 to open a new window with your extension loaded.
Create a new file with a file name suffix matching your language.
Verify that syntax highlighting works and that the language configuration settings are working.

Make changes

You can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after making changes to the files listed above.
You can also reload (Ctrl+R or Cmd+R on Mac) the VS Code window with your extension to load your changes.

Add more language features

To add features such as IntelliSense, hovers and validators check out the VS Code extenders documentation at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs

Install the extension

To start using the extension with Visual Studio Code copy it into the <user home>/.vscode/extensions folder and restart Code.
To share the extension with the world, read on https://code.visualstudio.com/docs about publishing an extension.

Publish the extension

VS Code Marketplace

Install vsce by running npm install -g @vscode/vsce.
Run vsce package from the command line.
Run vsce publish and open https://marketplace.visualstudio.com and publish your extension.

Open VSX

Install ovsx by running npm install -g ovsx.
Run npx ovsx publish python-docstring-highlighter-<version>.vsix -p <token>.

See https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/publishing-extensions for more information.