🔥Out now: improved support for fixed-format RPGLE 🔥

[worksofliam]

It brings me great pleasure to announce that for the RPGLE extension, 0.28.0, improvements to the RPGLE language server will support fixed-format RPGLE. Most importantly, we are shipping the ability to use the Peek and Go to References within Visual Studio Code.

This has been a long standing issue for people transitioning to Visual Studio Code. I am hoping this is one of the bigger technical hurdles that will help people as they start using it.

• Check out our docs on RPGLE in Visual Studio Code ✍️
• Make sure to have the RPGLE extension from the Marketplace 👩‍💻

I am expecting 0.28.0 to come out for 2025.

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Here is an example of the Peek view that will be available:

And of course, there is the standard References view also:

And as a reminder, here is Peek Definition for variables:

Here is a bonus feature - we're adding the column outline for the current line you're editing on!

More new feature include being able to use go to implementation to find where a procedure is defined (not the prototype, the actual procedure):

[jkyeung]

This is a big deal. Most of us are mainly maintaining existing code, which naturally is mostly in fixed format. For long-time SEU users who have never tried RDi or other full-featured IDE, this is an eye-popping, "wow" feature. It will go a long way toward enticing old-schoolers to adopt VS Code. And of course, it significantly helps existing VS Code users work with their legacy RPG codebases.

[JDubb-At-Nelnet]

love the column outline!