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Is there any IDE which supports importing Factorio's API documentation? For example, typing will bring up a list of available functions and descriptions. Or can API only be referenced manually?

There is an extension for vscode
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/it ... tocomplete

It's not a real autocomplete most of the time, since it will happily suggest invalid functions (it works for game. ). But i guess that's more due to lua being lua.

Choumiko wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:34 am

There is an extension for vscode
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/it ... tocomplete

It's not a real autocomplete most of the time, since it will happily suggest invalid functions (it works for game. ). But i guess that's more due to lua being lua.

Hmm seems alright, I'll keep this one in mind. Thanks.

Choumiko wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:34 am

There is an extension for vscode
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/it ... tocomplete

It's not a real autocomplete most of the time, since it will happily suggest invalid functions (it works for game. ). But i guess that's more due to lua being lua.

Given that the god object, LuaEntity, has approximately a million functions that only work on one particular type of it knowable only at runtime, I don't think that is really going to be a solvable problem. Even strict static typing can't tell you if this is a combinator or a train in that context, it'd need more information somewhere that was a human overlay on the in-game runtime state.

Choumiko wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:34 am

There is an extension for vscode
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/it ... tocomplete

It's not a real autocomplete most of the time, since it will happily suggest invalid functions (it works for game. ). But i guess that's more due to lua being lua.

Is there one that does the same for notepad plus plus ? That would be so great for my simple attempts at modding - now I'm going to look for one !