Add some way to pick from pico-8 glyphs

[Mladen Mihajlović]

It's useful to use the especially when listening to buttons - so having some sort of quick-pick or something would really help

[Jan Bergeson]

I don't understand the request. Can you provide more details? What glyphs are you referring to? And what did you have in mind for a "quick-pick"?

[Mladen Mihajlović]

I mean the icons you can place when pressing shift in pico-8 https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8SCII symbols, hashes, etc...

not sure about how - maybe snippets, or some sort of clickable window? Anything to make it easy 😊

[Jan Bergeson]

I see. Not sure how to do this. It'd definitely be a cool feature though!

[Mladen Mihajlović]

I came up with this snippet file - maybe you can try incorporate it into the extension if you'd like. Basically you just need to start typing p8scii and the selection should popup. Also I only included the things with names, I have no idea how I would include the other japanese characters...

PS: I copy pasted the names and characters from https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8SCII and have not tested them all, but the ones I tried worked...

{
	//Symbols and Japanese punctuation
	"Vertical rectangle": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-vertical-rectangle",
		"body": [
			"▮"
		],
	},
	"Filled square": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-filled-square",
		"body": [
			"■"
		],
	},
	"Hollow square": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-hollow-square",
		"body": [
			"□"
		],
	},
	"Five dot": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-five-dot",
		"body": [
			"⁙"
		],
	},
	"Four dot": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-four-dot",
		"body": [
			"⁘"
		],
	},
	"Pause": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-pause",
		"body": [
			"‖"
		],
	},
	"Back": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-back",
		"body": [
			"◀"
		],
	},
	"Forward": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-forward",
		"body": [
			"▶"
		],
	},
	"Japanese starting quote": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-japanese-starting-quote",
		"body": [
			"「"
		],
	},
	"Japanese ending quote": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-japanese-ending-quote",
		"body": [
			"」"
		],
	},
	"Yen sign": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-yen-sign",
		"body": [
			"¥"
		],
	},
	"Interpunct": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-interpunct",
		"body": [
			"•"
		],
	},
	"Japanese comma": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-japanese-comma",
		"body": [
			"、"
		],
	},
	"Japanese full stop": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-japanese-full stop",
		"body": [
			"。"
		],
	},
	"Japanese dakuten": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-japanese-dakuten",
		"body": [
			"゛"
		],
	},
	"Japanese handakuten": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-japanese-handakuten",
		"body": [
			"゜"
		],
	},
	//Typeable symbols
	"Hollow circle": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-hollow-circle",
		"body": [
			"○"
		]
	},
	"Rectangle": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-rectangle",
		"body": [
			"█"
		]
	},
	"Checkerboard": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-checkerboard",
		"body": [
			"▒"
		]
	},
	"Jelpi": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-jelpi",
		"body": [
			"🐱"
		]
	},
	"Down key": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-down-key",
		"body": [
			"⬇️"
		]
	},
	"Dot pattern": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-dot-pattern",
		"body": [
			"░"
		]
	},
	"Throwing star": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-throwing-star",
		"body": [
			"✽"
		]
	},
	"Ball": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-ball",
		"body": [
			"●"
		]
	},
	"Heart": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-heart",
		"body": [
			"♥"
		]
	},
	"Eye": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-eye",
		"body": [
			"☉"
		]
	},
	"Man": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-man",
		"body": [
			"웃"
		]
	},
	"House": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-house",
		"body": [
			"⌂"
		]
	},
	"Left key": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-left-key",
		"body": [
			"⬅️"
		]
	},
	"Face": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-face",
		"body": [
			"😐"
		]
	},
	"Musical note": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-musical-note",
		"body": [
			"♪"
		]
	},
	"O key": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-o-key",
		"body": [
			"🅾️"
		]
	},
	"Diamond": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-diamond",
		"body": [
			"◆"
		]
	},
	"Ellipsis": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-ellipsis",
		"body": [
			"…"
		]
	},
	"Right key": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-right-key",
		"body": [
			"➡️"
		]
	},
	"Five-pointed star": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-five-pointed-star",
		"body": [
			"★"
		]
	},
	"Hourglass": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-hourglass",
		"body": [
			"⧗"
		]
	},
	"Up key": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-up-key",
		"body": [
			"⬆️"
		]
	},
	"Birds": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-birds",
		"body": [
			"ˇ"
		]
	},
	"Sawtooth": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-sawtooth",
		"body": [
			"∧"
		]
	},
	"X key": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-x-key",
		"body": [
			"❎"
		]
	},
	"Horiz lines": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-horiz-lines",
		"body": [
			"▤"
		]
	},
	"Vert lines": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-vert-lines",
		"body": [
			"▥"
		]
	},
	"Left arc": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-left-arc",
		"body": [
			"◜"
		]
	},
	"Right arc": {
		"prefix": "p8scii-right-arc",
		"body": [
			"◝"
		]
	},
}

[Jan Bergeson]

I like the idea of adding the snippets. If you submit a PR adding these snippets to syntaxes/snippets.json, I'll be happy to merge it.

[Jan Bergeson]

I changed some of the shortcuts to make them shorter and then added these suggestions in c7d3f75 .

Not released yet -- I'll make a comment when it is.

[Jan Bergeson]

Fix released just now with 0.4.10