Re: [ANN] A Visual Studio Code Integrated Debugger for Ravi and Lua 5.3 - alpha release 0.20

[Andrew Starks <andrew@...>]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pleased to announce an update to the Lua / Ravi 5.3 debugger
> plugin for Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. Details of this plugin can
> be found at:
>
> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ravilang.ravi-debug.
>
> The debugger can be installed from Visual Studio Code by the extension
> installation facility - search for 'Lua and Ravi 5.3 Debugger'.
>
> New in this release is better handling of global variables. As Lua
> predefines a number of globals including functions and tables, I have
> split the globals view into two sections: one shows the pre-defined
> Lua globals and the other view shows user defined globals. Also
> support has been added to allow expansion of tables in the globals
> view. Tables can be expanded to only one level of drill down in all
> views.
>
> In this release pre-built binaries are included for Windows 10, OSX and Ubuntu
> Linux - all 64-bit, and interpreter only. I am not sure if OSX and
> Linux binaries will work for everyone - if it does not then please let me know.
>
> There is still a lot more work to do but if anyone cares to try this out and
> send me feedback then please do!
>
> By the way - my impression of Visual Studio Code is very positive. It
> seems fairly easy to create plugins for languages and debuggers.
>
> Regards
>

Just a note to say that you inspired me to try Visual Code and your
plug-in. So far so good, although I can't say that I've been taxing it
in any significant way.

Thank you for your hard work!


Andrew Starks