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Z80 Macro-Assembler extension for Visual Studio Code

syntax highlighting for Z80 assembly sources of well known Z80 macro-assemblers, for example:
- SjASM or SjASMPlus
- Macroassembler AS
- Pasmo
- rasm
- tniASM (v0.x series)
problem matchers for SjASMPlus, Macroassembler AS, Pasmo, rasm and tniASM compilation output
label or symbol defintion documentation, suggestions on hover or typing
macro documentation and argument definition suggestions
semi-automatic completition with formatting
renaming of labels or symbols
formatting of block or whole document (experimental feature)
snippets for macros and source control keywords

⚙️ Settings

These few options allows you to configure extension's behavior but primarily your code-formatting preferences and code completion:

z80-macroasm.files.exclude - Choose files or directories to exclude (e.g '**/*.{lst}').
z80-macroasm.files.include - Files to include and work with. If you, or your macro-assembler using a different conventions of source file extensions then change it here.

default: "**/*.{a80,asm,inc,s}"
z80-macroasm.seekSymbolsThroughWorkspace - If true, extension will crawl through all your workspace files to document all symbols. Otherwise, only includes are taken into account.

default: false

Formatter:

z80-macroasm.format.enabled - Turn on the experimental feature of format on-type or on-save.

default: false
z80-macroasm.format.baseIndent - How many tabstops you prefer before the instructions or keywords.

default: 2
z80-macroasm.format.controlIndent - How many tabstops you prefer before the control structure keywords, selections, modules, or blocks.

default: 1
z80-macroasm.format.whitespaceAfterInstruction - Which type of whitespace you want to put after the instruction - "tab", "single-space" or "auto" which autodetect file's tabstop type and width.

default: "auto"
z80-macroasm.format.spaceAfterArgument - If you want to put a single space character after comma (instruction's argument).

default: false
z80-macroasm.format.spaceAfterInstruction - If you want to put a single space character after instruction (before colon separator).

default: true
z80-macroasm.format.uppercaseKeywords - If true, uppercase all keywords, instructions and registers. False means all lowercased and "auto" tries to auto-detect your code-style while typing.

default: "auto"
z80-macroasm.format.bracketType - Define which type of brackets around the instruction's arguments (pointers) you prefer: (round) or [square].

default: "round"
z80-macroasm.format.colonAfterLabels - Put colon after each label or symbol (true or false, "no-change" keeps it untouched).

default: "no-change"
z80-macroasm.format.hexaNumberStyle - Define which hexadecimal number format you prefer to reformat:
- "no-change" - no reformat happen (default)
- "hash": #1fff | #B45D
- "motorola": $1fff | $B45D
- "intel": 1fffh | 0B45Dh
- "intel-uppercase": 1fffH | 0B45DH
- "c-style": 0x1fff | 0xB45D
z80-macroasm.format.hexaNumberCase - When reformatting of hexadecimal numbers was enabled, whether it's to be additional case processing applied when true means uppercased, false lowercased.

default: "no-change"
z80-macroasm.format.splitInstructionsByColon - Split colon separated instructions to lines.

default: true

These keys/values can be used in your workspace or global settings.json. See example »»

🚨 Problem matchers

There are some predefined problem matchers to handle reported errors from compilation output:

errmatcher-as for Macroassembler AS
errmatcher-sjasmplus for SjASMPlus
errmatcher-sjasm for SjASM
errmatcher-pasmo for Pasmo
errmatcher-rasm for rasm
errmatcher-tniasm and errmatcher-tniasm-preprocessor for tniASM

These values can be used in .vscode/tasks.json of your project's build task. See example »»

💡 IntelliSense showcase

Symbol suggestions:

provide symbols or labels
- in current file in "Go to Symbol in File..." [Ctrl+Shift+O, Cmd+Shift+O]
- in all includes in "Go to Symbol in Workspace..." [Ctrl+T, Cmd+T]
- in Outline side-bar