Best C and assembly editor

Hehe

~$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          16003        1858        4021         218       10123       13594

~$ code &
[1] 31113

~$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          16003        2459        3403         234       10140       12976

600Mb just for vscode (that i use with Unity3D).
640Mb should be enough for everyone™

I can’t agree with that at all. Firstly because I resent the implicit assumption that free software can’t be as good as paid software . But I also simply can’t name any renowned IDE that is paid. The best most well known editors out there are all free: Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, etc. Though some of these also have paid pro versions, that doesn’t by definition make them better.

This extension massively degraded in the past year and its attempts at “smart” code completion is actively in my way. When I type exx <enter> it adds an unwanted space after it which I have to go back and remove. When I type ld (ix + 10),a it somehow manages to turn it into ld (ix+ + 10),a a). When I type ld a,(bc) <enter> it turns it into ld a,(bc)).

There were issues introduced before which seem to have been fixed, such as typing ld b,a <enter> would autocomplete to a label starting with an A rather than the register. Or typing a space after the mnemonic would insert either a tab or two spaces. It seems very unstable and only tested with the precise code style of the author, and there are no configuration options to disable all this nonsense.

So, any recommendations for a better Z80 extension for Visual Studio Code which does just syntax highlighting, the outline, go-to-definition, and autocomplete suggestions that are not in the way of typing? Or else, a simple way to revert back to an older version of this extension.

I looked at the zingularity and EZ80 Assembly extensions, but both litter my code with nonsensical error markers. The former marks every line ending with 0 as having an error, and also doesn’t understand ld a,"-". It also doesn’t like my Call label or symbols with a period in them, and sometimes the parser seems to just completely break down marking every line ending as an error. The latter doesn’t understand ld ixl,e nor 00H hex syntax. Both of them complain incessantly for any directive that they don’t know about like MACRO and ENDM.

At this point I’m seriously considering making my own extension. Then I could add some specifics for Glass too. A shame though because the Z80 Macro-Assembler extension used to work fine for me bar some minor nitpicks.

I did notify the author about your issues, will let you know if he responds, but did you consider also to raise these on https://github.com/mborik/z80-macroasm-vscode/issues ?

I'm personally not using VSC and these extensions, but IIRC lot of the behaviour can be finetuned by some configuration. Also if you would need some specific syntax extensions for glass, IMHO you have good chance to get it over time, Martin is usually very helpful and cool guy.

(for the record, I use Kate editor with my own sjasmplus syntax highlight rules, and for any quick navigation through sources I use just regular search/search-files with regexes ... I don't really miss any intellisense-like for my asm sources, but then again, I still don't have any huge Z80 project :D )

I'm not really sure if it's an issue of the Z80 Macro-Assembler extension or the VSCode suggestion mechanism... I think the extension has improved but triggering suggestion when coding in assembler is usually a bad idea due the short keywords used. It is not the same to suggest "HttpServletRequest" after typing "http" than suggesting all ld/ldd/ldi/lddr/ldir combinations after typing "ld"; particularly if you are used to tab after mnemonic and tab happens to be the shortcut to accept selected suggestion!

For Z80 Macro-Assembler, I have this particular setting that prevents all those obnoxious unwanted code completions:

    "[z80-macroasm]": {
        "editor.quickSuggestions": false
    }

I think that should be enough but, for completeness, I will mention that I also had these entries in my VSCode settings (as I dislike suggestions to be automatic in any case):

    "editor.inlineSuggest.enabled": false,
    "editor.suggestOnTriggerCharacters": false,
    "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": false,

Please let me know if that helped!
And, if you code your own extension, count on me for betatesting ^_^