Features

This page gives a concise overview to all the features of V4P. I also want to highlight the   Cheat-Sheet I assembled: It provides a complete list of features, settings, and generally useful information regarding Visual Studio Code in general, and V4P in particular.

• VHDL 2008 support
  • Full Syntax Support: Generic Packages, Generic Subroutines, External/Hierarchical Names, Enhanced Bit String Literals, Protected Types, Contexts, Vector Aggregates, Conditional Statements, ...
  • Syntax Highlighting
  • Syntax Errors
• Semantic Highlighting (highlight constants, types, signals, functions, etc. differently)
• Semantic Error Checks
  • Symbol not defined
• Find all References
• Parameter Help for subroutines and instances
• Refactoring (Rename)
• Code Navigation
  • Goto Definition
  • Goto Declaration
  • Goto Type Definition
• Hover Info / Quickinfo
  • Symbol Information, Type Information
  • Recursive Type Resolution
  • Recursive Alias Resolution
  • Number Conversion
• Code Completion
  • Snippets (esp. Instances and Case Statements)
  • Context Sensitive Suggestions
  • Record / Protected Type Completion
  • External / Hierarchical Name Completion
• Smart Indentation when typing
• VHDL specific Outlining / Code Folding
• Multiple VHDL libraries per Design File
• Per-Folder Preferences
  • Indentation
  • Formatting (Keyword-style, Capitalization of Standard-Libs, ...)

Upcoming Features

• Error Checking (signal vs. variable assignment, already defined, cannot assign to, ...)
• Symbol Hierarchy
• Hover Info / Quickinfo
  • Expression Evaluator
• Code Formatting
• Code Statistics (lines of code, comments, empty lines etc)