Supporting creating a new document virtually

[cfjedimaster]

Extensions should be able to create a new panel/document and open it in the editor, much like how markdown preview does.

[jrieken]

@cfjedimaster The idea is that you can register for a URI-scheme, like foo and that someone will ask you provide the contents for foo://something/anotherthing when a corresponding call to openTextDocument is made.

Those document must not be able to be saved and can be readonly by some mechanism (TBD). Will that be enough for your needs?

[cfjedimaster]

Sure.

[jrieken]

Idea is to allow to contribute content (?) provider, like so

interface TextDocumentContentProvider {
  open(uri:Uri):Thenable<string|Buffer>;
  close(uri:Uri):Thenable<any>;
}

registerTextDocumentProvider(scheme | pattern, provider);

[cfjedimaster]

Open would require a uri? Does that mean I'd need to save the text locally first?

[jrieken]

no, it's more to allow to define your own space using a scheme, like so myextension://project1/path/to/fake/resource would be a valid Uri and it would be up to you to resolve that somehow, like deriving info from a dll-file or generated markup.

[cfjedimaster]

Ok... I kinda get it. :) I'd love to test this when possible. Let me know.

[jrieken]

I will keep you in the loop once we sketch out the API for this.

[DickvdBrink]

I would love this feature as well :)