advanced-formula-environment Please release the syntax highlighting for VS Code

Hello. First of all, congratulations on the work, it's a great leap forward for Excel.

However, for a large library I'd be better to work full screen in VS Code with all the bonuses it provides. And it seems that you're already working on enabling version control software (https://github.com/microsoft/advanced-formula-environment/issues/53). Given that the AFE is extremely similar to VS Code, it seems like it would represent a small effort for you to release a VS Code extension for writing Excel formulas.

Thanks!

Feb 20 '24 21:02 santiago-afonso

(The purpose of this would be to edit Excel formula modules in VS Code, synced with a Github gist.)

May 10 '24 17:05 santiago-afonso

Another possibility would be to outright add an "edit in VSCode" button, which would allow us to leverage Copilot or similar LLM-based aids.

Jun 12 '24 12:06 santiago-afonso

Thanks for the feedback. We have had a couple of requests to provide the formula editing mode as a VS Code plugin.

I did start looking into it - I think it is slightly more work to release and publish than we can budget right now based on the frequency of requests. For now I'll mark this is as enhancement and revisit if we start working on it.

Jun 14 '24 10:06 jack-williams

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Hope you get the resources to do this.

Jun 14 '24 20:06 santiago-afonso