Registry Management and Time Management Release

0.4.0

• Didact Tutorial Registry Improvements

  • Didact Tutorials view no longer clears and resets the registry of tutorials on startup each time
  • New setting enables turning off re-adding the default Didact tutorials on Startup
  • New command Didact: Clear Tutorial Registry will clear the entire tutorial registry (use at own risk!)
  • New right-click menu Didact: Register Didact Tutorial on Didact files in the Explorer view enables user-registered tutorials to appear in Didact Tutorials view
  • New right-click menu Remove Didact Tutorial on tutorials in Didact Tutorials view enables tutorial removal

• Didact Time-boxing Tutorial Improvements

  • added capability to show approximately how long a particular tutorial will take
    • add {time=x} (where x is a number of minutes) to a heading declaration in markdown
    • add [role="time=x"] (where x is a number of minutes) on the line above a heading declaration in asciidoc
  • added capability to go directly to a time-boxed heading node from the Didact Tutorials view
  • updated the HelloJS tutorial to include time-boxed headings as an example

• Didact extension now works with the AsciiDoctor extension

• Added confirmation to Didact: Clear Tutorial Registry to add extra check before clearing the tutorial registry

• Added Insert Didact Badge completion to show Powered by Didact badge with link back to the project in GitHub

• Added new vscode URI processing to handle registering a Didact tutorial via a web link and a new command - Didact: Process VSCode link from web to process a copied link

• Add new Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+T shortcut to convert selected text into a sendNamedTerminalAString Didact link

  • Added new settings to customize the link text shown and whether to execute the command in the terminal
  • Add new sendNamedTerminalAStringNoLF command that sends text to the terminal but doesn't execute it

Stabilization and removing the footer

• adding vscode.didact.refresh command to refresh the currently active Didact window
• adding retry in case the uri for a tutorial isn't quite available yet
• with terminal commands, now open existing terminal if it exists rather than erroring out
• removing footer that was problematic at the bottom of every Didact window

0.3.1 - Emergency fix

A dependency that has always been a devDependency shifted to becoming more of a necessary package and didn't catch it in time. That meant that when you installed 0.3.0 it failed to load all the way. That's been fixed and our tests were streamlined a bit to make them faster.

Back to your regularly scheduled Didact!

Multi window release!

• Switching from xmldom to node-html-parser for heading parsing
• remove history functions
• open a new didact window with each tutorial
• persist html state between workspace sessions
• remove old webview implementation
• adding new commands to paste from clipboard to open editor - vscode.didact.copyClipboardToActiveTextEditor, vscode.didact.copyClipboardToEditorForFile, vscode.didact.copyClipboardToNewFile

Multi-platform stabilization and unifying icons!

• Updated AsciiDoc demo with better requirements label example. FUSETOOLS2-800
• Addressed issue where inner label on adoc was updating incorrectly. FUSETOOLS2-877
• Removed local copy of asciidoctor.css in favor of using upstream version directly. FUSETOOLS2-874
• Fixed issue with platform neutral paths preventing successful operation on Windows. FUSETOOLS-887
• Added Didact icon to Didact view tab and Didact version to footer. FUSETOOLS2-919
• Added Didact icon to tutorials in tutorials view. FUSETOOLS2-920

Better code completion and more!

• Improved Didact code completion support. FUSETOOLS2-811
• Added fix to support AsciiDoc include statements. Any adoc include files must be in a location relative to the file in which they are included. FUSETOOLS2-804
• Support json parameter for commands FUSETOOLS2-832
• Added a new option when scaffolding files from json. Open = true will open the file in a new text editor FUSETOOLS2-742

Many improvements and some new options

• Improved webview title handling, attempting to grab the first H1 or H2 heading in the generated HTML #118
• Adding extension setting to enable opening the default Didact file at startup. #144
• Switching to xmldom for heading parsing and better Typescript 4 support
• Adding ability to open a Didact file in a different column by default
• Adding simple history to enable stepping forward/back through last few Didact tutorials #102
• Adding new tutorial helping new users create their first Didact file FUSETOOLS2-634
• Added ability to copy file contents onto the clipboard with the new vscode.didact.copyFileTextToClipboardCommand (FUSETOOLS2-706)

New functionality and stabilization

• Adding "vscode.didact.copyFileURLtoWorkspaceCommand" command to copy a file from a file URL into the workspace (issue #134)
• Improved "vscode.didact.copyFileURLtoWorkspaceCommand" to also unzip when needed (issue #135)
• Fix issue #145

Improving Validation and Column Awareness Release

• Adding "Validate Didact File" command to provide diagnostic validation
• Adding title-level context menu item to Markdown and AsciiDoc editors to call validation
• Adding awareness so Didact view column is persisted if moved
• Adding new 'vscode.didact.copyToClipboardCommand' command that can put text on the clipboard
• Improving validation to show number of commands validated and open Didact output channel to see results
• Improving command validation performance

Readme update

• Updated the readme and fixed a few errant links linking to an old github repository or old paths