Technical Articles
Standalone editing of ABAP in vscode
With ABAP code versioned in git, it is possible to clone ABAP projects as files to the local PC. And like other files, these can be edited with your favorite editor.
To help the developer, I’ve been working on a standalone setup for editing ABAP files based on LSP and vscode.
Below shows some of the features currently implemented,
Diagnostics
Go to definition
Hover
Rename
References
Quick Fix
GitHub Codespaces
All this also works with Github Codespaces running in the browser,
The abaplint extension is available from the marketplace, or try the online playground
Bug reports and bugfixes welcome at https://github.com/abaplint/vscode-abaplint
Mission impossible? No, however, there will be a lot of bugs, and it will always be two steps behind, just like most(all?) developer tooling.
If you could now also implement a runtime for ABAP without the need for an application server.... 😀
#freeABAP
see https://blogs.sap.com/2020/09/13/my-solution-to-the-abap-community-coding-challenge/
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😉
And btw, its MIT licensed
There is no typeahead, yet
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