One great thing about having our free Code Writer Windows 8 text/code editing app out is that we now get a lot of feedback directly from end users of the Synta圎ditor control. The advanced JavaScript language will be added to the Web Languages Add-on in the 2013.2 version of Synta圎ditor! For example, this means that when you type a ( character, the end ) character is inserted immediately after the caret for you. Delimiter Auto-CompleteĪ new feature (being added in 2013.2 with support for all languages) allows for delimiter auto-complete. This sort of functionality is described in detail in this post.

Use Ctrl+Num+ and Ctrl+Num- to expand and collapse the text selection over the ancestor statement/block/function hierarchy. Text FormattingĪ text formatter is included that beautifies JavaScript code. Pressing Enter at the end of a line indents properly on the next line. The outlining margin helps the end user by providing some visual structure to the code. Code OutliningĪll JavaScript functions are code outlined so that they may be collapsed (folded). In addition, squiggle lines are rendered under the errors and mouse hovers over the squiggles reveals the error description. Syntax Error ReportingĮrrors in syntax are returned by the parser and can be displayed in error lists. This AST is stored with the document and can be traversed to view the JavaScript code structure. The parser outputs a complete abstract syntax tree (AST) of the document. The parser runs in a worker thread, and even handles things such as implicit semi-colon insertion. ParsingĪ full parser that conforms to the ECMAScript 5.1 standard is included. Syntax HighlightingĪs with all our other syntax languages, a lexer tokenizes the code and allows for colorization of items such as keywords, comments, strings, etc. In this post we'll look at which features will be part of the language's first release.

In our last post, we revealed that a new advanced implementation of the JavaScript language is being added to the Web Languages Add-on in the 2013.2 version.

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