Thank you very much, but in fact that script file "vscode-context.cmd" really just contains the same command for installing extensions as I quoted above - and so produces the same errors. Maybe I'll go back to trying SciTe - I gave it a bit of a go, but wasn't successful. Of all the information on the context-wiki, and the Pragma webpage - where would I go to find the most up-to-date information about configuring an editor to work with ConTeXt in Windows? Thanks again, Alasdair On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:51 AM Hans Hagen wrote:

On 7/28/2020 6:51 AM, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:

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I am installing the Windows version of ConTeXt, which comes with a VSCode extension, in

<ConTeXt>\tex\texmf-context\context\data\vscode\extensions

with instructions to run (from within the VSCode terminal):

code -- extensions-dir <above directory> -- install-extension context

The trouble is that the current ConTeXt installation (as of 65 minutes ago), doesn't seem to contain an extension in the format that VSCode understands. Running that command produces the errors:

Installing extensions... Extension 'context' not found. Make sure you use the full extension ID, including the publisher, e.g.: ms-dotnettools.csharp Failed Installing Extensions: context:

For what it's worth, I'm running VSCode 1.46.0.

How can I install the VSCode ConTeXt extension? Here i just run this (seems to work with latest update):

data/context/vscode-context.cmd

(I only occasionally check vscode and will look into it again when there is easy suffix dependent runner support. Of course I do generate the syntax files.)

Hans

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Thanks again, I've fiddled with SciTE, but when I attempted to compile a context file, I was told that "texexec" wasn't in my path, so somehow, somewhere, I must have picked up an old version of the compile command. Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way of getting SciTE to use a monospaced font. I've fiddled with the customization files to no avail whatsoever. I think I have Atom already, but surely there should be some easy way of getting other text editors working? On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 1:13 AM Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Am 29.07.2020 um 14:19 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew :

Thank you very much, but in fact that script file "vscode-context.cmd" really just contains the same command for installing extensions as I quoted above - and so produces the same errors. Maybe I'll go back to trying SciTe - I gave it a bit of a go, but wasn't successful. Of all the information on the context-wiki, and the Pragma webpage - where would I go to find the most up-to-date information about configuring an editor to work with ConTeXt in Windows?

You could try Atom and install the ConTeXt module from github.com/massifrg/language-context. Original language-context is outdated, but upstream didn’t react to mails from Massi and me. This version also isn’t perfect, but I’m using and occasionally updating it. (I should re-base it on the current work done for the wiki.) There’s also still no run command.

Additionally you should install - language-latex (contains plain TeX commands) - language-lua - atom-ide-terminal (for running ConTeXt in place) - file-icons (only icon package that contains TeX icons) - pdf-view (not very good, but good enough for simple cases)

Best, Hraban

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Am 30.07.2020 um 03:57 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew :

Thanks again, I've fiddled with SciTE, but when I attempted to compile a context file, I was told that "texexec" wasn't in my path, so somehow, somewhere, I must have picked up an old version of the compile command. Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way of getting SciTE to use a monospaced font.

Did you read $TEXROOT/texmf-context/context/data/scite/context/documents/scite-context-readme.pdf ? I don’t know if that answers your questions and if it’s still current. HR