Editor issue

[Giacomo Casano]

The new release of the editor has this issue:
when I insert a comment to highlight a line—such as //*—the editor interprets it as the start of a comment and stops displaying the list of routines.
However, everything works fine during compilation.
I am attaching a video.

[Anobium]

Interesting.

Found it, and it can be fixed.

Root cause: the Outline is generated by the GCBASIC extension. It strips /* ... */-style block comments line-by-line before running the symbol regexes, tracking an inBlock flag across the whole file. So, a little change is required.

Run the attached CMD. Restart GCODE or press F2 in GCODE choose 'RELOAD WINDOW'.

[Anobium]

If you cannot download the CMD. Cut and paste this into a CMD file.

@echo off
setlocal

rem ============================================================================
rem  patch_gccode_outline_fix.cmd
rem
rem  Fixes a bug in the GCcode (MierEngineering.GreatCowBasic) VS Code extension's
rem  Outline/Symbol provider: a comment line like "//*  ----- Configuration" is
rem  misread as opening a real /* block comment (the second '/' of "//" doubles
rem  as the first '/' of "/*"), which never closes, so every symbol below that
rem  line silently disappears from the Outline for the rest of the file.
rem
rem  Usage:
rem      patch_gccode_outline_fix.cmd [path_to_extension.js]
rem
rem  With no argument, patches the default install location:
rem      C:\GCstudio\vscode\data\extensions\MierEngineering.GreatCowBasic\dist\extension.js
rem
rem  Safe to run more than once - if the fix is already present, it reports that
rem  and makes no changes. A timestamped backup of the original file is made
rem  before any change.
rem ============================================================================

set "TARGET=%~1"
if "%TARGET%"=="" set "TARGET=C:\GCstudio\vscode\data\extensions\MierEngineering.GreatCowBasic\dist\extension.js"

if not exist "%TARGET%" (
    echo [FAIL] File not found: %TARGET%
    exit /b 1
)

echo Target: %TARGET%

powershell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command ^
    "$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';" ^
    "$target = '%TARGET%';" ^
    "$old = 'GCBDocumentSymbolProvider.stringRemBlock.test(text.slice(pos, start))';" ^
    "$new = 'GCBDocumentSymbolProvider.stringRemBlock.test(text.slice(pos, start + 1))';" ^
    "$enc  = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding($false);" ^
    "$text = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($target, $enc);" ^
    "if ($text.Contains($new)) {" ^
    "    Write-Host '[OK] Already patched - no changes made.';" ^
    "    exit 0;" ^
    "}" ^
    "if (-not $text.Contains($old)) {" ^
    "    Write-Host '[FAIL] Expected original text not found - file may be a different version. No changes made.';" ^
    "    exit 2;" ^
    "}" ^
    "$count = ([regex]::Matches($text, [regex]::Escape($old))).Count;" ^
    "if ($count -ne 1) {" ^
    "    Write-Host \"[FAIL] Expected exactly 1 match, found $count - refusing to guess. No changes made.\";" ^
    "    exit 3;" ^
    "}" ^
    "$stamp = Get-Date -Format 'yyyyMMdd_HHmmss';" ^
    "$backup = \"$target.bak_$stamp\";" ^
    "Copy-Item -LiteralPath $target -Destination $backup -Force;" ^
    "Write-Host \"[OK] Backed up original to: $backup\";" ^
    "$patched = $text.Replace($old, $new);" ^
    "[System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($target, $patched, $enc);" ^
    "Write-Host '[OK] Patched successfully.';" ^
    "Write-Host 'Reload GCcode (Ctrl+Shift+P -> Developer: Reload Window) for the fix to take effect.';" ^
    "exit 0;"

set "RC=%ERRORLEVEL%"
if not "%RC%"=="0" (
    echo [FAIL] Patch script exited with code %RC%.
)
exit /b %RC%

[Giacomo Casano]

It works perfectly now. Thanks.