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Variable Explorer in sublime text

#1

Is there any way to add a variable explorer in sublime text?
that updates variables in the program every 100ms?

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#2

You mean “Document Outline”? That’s also called “goto symbol”. Press ctrl+R to access it.

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#4

A variable explorer which gives you the values of all variable defined in the code
like this

variable-explorer-execution.gif (690×658) (spyder-ide.org)
variable-explorer-execution.gif690×658
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#5

I don’t think it, a debugger view (or repl), will be done officially. If ST is going to move to that direction, a built-in terminal is the highest wanted one. But I do think ST is still lacking some UI things…

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#6

i just want to ask, “is a variable explorer pane or window possible in sublime text?”

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#7

No. Or, I am not aware of. (plus, mimicking a table is a pain in ST)

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#8

okay… fine…

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#9

Thanks for clarifying. The problem with showing inline values like that is that Sublime Text must first have some notion of running a program in a debugger environment. There is no provision for that at all. The other problem is what constitutes a valid identifier or expression to show the evaluated value for. There is some discussion about that at the language server protocol repository https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/pull/1318

There is already some concepts for that merged in the VSCode API https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/c980ea2307905fd1efeee38915bf1e5ccdff1754/src/vs/vscode.d.ts#L2677-L2852

Your best bet would be to look into https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Debugger. This package implements DAP.

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#10

I’m actually impressed with loyal Sublime Text users making plugins that closes the gap with VS Code. New video idea @OdatNurd. The Debugger plugin could be a followup for the Terminus tip.

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