Year of the Ox

Happy Lunar New Year 2021 🧨🐂

Added

• Support for debugger adapter. Code can be evaluated and symbols can be
  shown in the editor.

• CodeAction to show Documentation for system symbols (Thanks @wuyudi for
  the help with testing)

Keep Healthy

Stay Home Stay Healthy 🐱‍🏍

Added

• SignatureHelp is available for functions when [ and , is input.

Changed

• Change the dependencies from AST and Lint to CodeParser and CodeInspector.
• The alias completion has been improved by reducing the number of completionItems, and returning \-prefixed aliases when triggered twice.

Fixed

• triggerCharacters should be a list (thanks to @dalanicolai).
• The duplicate requests error will not popup in Output window in VSCode (reported by @GiovanniBordiga).
• MessageName should be shown when hovered

Year of the Rat

Happy Lunar New Year 2020 🏮🐀

Added

• Definition / References are available to show in scopes / the whole file.

• DocumentHighlight is available to show the scoped variables.

• DocumentColor / ColorRepresentation are available to show the color names and models.

Changed

• The Top-level function / list declaration is visible in documentSymbol.
• Attributes and Option are showed in hover messages.
• Operators will also trigger the hover messages.

Fixed

• Mathematica before version 11.3 are correctly using the StringRepeat.

Known issues

• The hovering could be triggered, when cursor is in side a parent syntax
  node even it is not on the operator/function head. Not sure about the UX.
• Color-related requests are slowed down intentionally, since it is in low
  use frequency comparing to messages like didChange and completion.
• Even if some requests are prioritized to improve the experience, sometimes
  responds could still be slower if the document is changing too frequent.

Graduation Season

Enjoy the summer 🏖️

Added

• The document structure is provided in DocumentSymbol. (Thanks to Brenton's AST package)
• Hovering for MessageName and numeral literals.
• Completion for both aliases and long names of the Unicode characters (with leader key \).
• Auto check for upgrades and dependencies.

Changed

• Using Brenton's Lint package to diagnose the document.
• Documentations now have a better format with code block (in hovers and completions).
• Diagnostics are published schedulely.

Fixed

• High CPU usage when reading message via sockets under Linux.
  (Reported by @kc9jud and solution suggested by
  @megatron0000)

Known Issues

• Some of the documentations are not transcribed correctly into Markdown format, see issues.

Alpha Release

Added

• Named pipe support for Windows

Fixed

• Avoid early evaluation that slow down the initialization

• Markdown conversion for special characters

Removed

• SVG image for document information

Year of the Pig

Happy Lunar New Year 2019 🧧

Added

• Markdown text-based document information

Fixed

• Tail-recursive message handler with no limits

Deprecated

• SVG image for document information

Alpha Release

Added

• A state-less server to handle messages, via TCP socket protocol.

• Support for the following language features:

  • Hover: Provide definitions for variables with usage message.

  • Completion: for wolfram system names.

  • Completion Resolve: Further information would be provided for the items in
    the list.

  • Diagnostics: Syntax error would be underlined.

• Support for exporting temporary SVG images for the information of the variables.

• A type system with pattern test.

• A unit test framework.