FriCAS VS Code extension

This VS Code extension provides support for the FriCAS Computer Algebra System. This extension is also compatible with Google Antigravity

Getting started

Building the extension

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/gvanuxem/fricas-vscode
2. Install npm for your distro/system (Node.js package manager)
3. Install vsce using npm:
   • Run sudo npm install -g @vscode/vsce in a terminal.
4. Install required node modules:
   • Run npm install in the root directory
5. Build the extension:
   • Run vsce package

Installing FriCAS/VS Code/VS Code FriCAS extension

1. Install FriCAS for your platform: https://github.com/fricas/fricas/releases/
2. Install VS Code for your platform: https://code.visualstudio.com/download or install the open source version, on a Debian-based system issue sudo apt install code-oss in a terminal. At the end of this step you should be able to start VS Code.
3. 1. Start VS Code.
   2. Inside VS Code, go to the extensions view either by executing the View: Show Extensions command (click View->Command Palette...) or by clicking on the extension icon on the left side of the VS Code window.
   3. In the extensions view, click at the top right, the three dots ... and choose Install from VSIX... You will be able to choose the language-fricas-*.vsix VSIX file. Or in the Command Palette... execute Extensions: Install from VSIX... and choose the extension.

Configure the FriCAS extension

If you have installed FriCAS into a standard location on Mac or Windows, or if the FriCAS binary is on your PATH, the FriCAS VS Code extension should automatically find your FriCAS installation and you should not need to configure anything.

If the extension does not find your FriCAS installation automatically, or if you want to use a different FriCAS installation than the default one, you can set the fricas.executablePath to point to the FriCAS executable that the extension should use. In that case the extension will always use that version of FriCAS. To edit your configuration settings, execute the Preferences: Open User Settings command (you can also access it via the menu File->Preferences->Settings), and then make sure your user settings include the fricas.executablePath setting. The format of the string should follow your platform specific conventions, and be aware that the backlash \ is the escape character in JSON, so you need to use \\ as the path separator character on Windows.

Features

The extension currently provides:

• work in progress syntax highlighting
• work in progress FriCAS specific commands
• work in progress integrated FriCAS REPL
• work in progress code completion
• planned documentation navigation
• planned hover help
• work in progress code navigation
• planned debugger
• planned integrated plots

Questions, Feature requests and contributions

1. If you face any issues, please open an issue here.
2. If there is already an issue opened related to yours, please leave an upvote/downvote on the issue.
3. Contributions are always welcome!