I’ve started using Microsoft’s new Visual Studio Code text editor at work and it’s pretty neat. I like it more than the Brackets editor that I was using before. It’s similar, but more polished and has some excellent features like an integrated terminal and a debugger. As you might expect there is a comprehensive extension repository but once again there was no syntax highlighter for Asterisk dialplan code so I took it upon myself to fill the void and wrote one.
I recently started using the Brackets text editor. Brackets is a powerful open source text editor in much the same vein as Sublime with lots of nice programming features and support for extensions. Some of the files that I edit are Asterisk configuration files. Asterisk is a VoIP server and these are the files that tell it how to route VoIP calls. They have their own special syntax and Brackets didn’t include a syntax highlighter by default, so I thought I might make one.
