🔥Out now: improved support for fixed-format RPGLE 🔥

[worksofliam]

It brings me great pleasure to announce that for the RPGLE extension, 0.28.0, improvements to the RPGLE language server will support fixed-format RPGLE. Most importantly, we are shipping the ability to use the Peek and Go to References within Visual Studio Code.

This has been a long standing issue for people transitioning to Visual Studio Code. I am hoping this is one of the bigger technical hurdles that will help people as they start using it.

• Check out our docs on RPGLE in Visual Studio Code ✍️
• Make sure to have the RPGLE extension from the Marketplace 👩‍💻

I am expecting 0.28.0 to come out for 2025.

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Here is an example of the Peek view that will be available:

And of course, there is the standard References view also:

And as a reminder, here is Peek Definition for variables:

Here is a bonus feature - we're adding the column outline for the current line you're editing on!

More new feature include being able to use go to implementation to find where a procedure is defined (not the prototype, the actual procedure):

[jkyeung]

This is a big deal. Most of us are mainly maintaining existing code, which naturally is mostly in fixed format. For long-time SEU users who have never tried RDi or other full-featured IDE, this is an eye-popping, "wow" feature. It will go a long way toward enticing old-schoolers to adopt VS Code. And of course, it significantly helps existing VS Code users work with their legacy RPG codebases.

[JDubb-At-Nelnet]

love the column outline!

[rogersonra]

It's great all the enhancements that you guys are doing.

That said, is there a way to turn off the column outline?

My problem is that it hides the previous line. Sometimes that line is important to the logic.
For example, the AND line is being hidden behind the outline.

Thanks,

Rob

[NextPage66]

Here is my keybinding. I am in an rpgle source file member and the system language mode is designated as RPGLE. It is still not working. What am I missing?

[jkyeung]

Looks to me as though the editorFocus condition takes precedence over the editorLangId == 'rpgle' condition. I would try editing the ones coming from your Notepad++ extension so that their condition is editorFocus && editorLangId != 'rpgle'.

[NextPage66]

I can see the key bindings but not allowed to change the WHEN condition. Can only change the keys used.
Is this list of key bindings from the Microsoft system or is it self contained in VSCode?

[DamianoBonato]

VSCode

[DamianoBonato]

Resolved, there was a command conflict .
Thanks .

[DamianoBonato]

Good evening, when I press Alt+F4 the following message appears: