Heads up: some when clauses in your extension may be broken with the next VS Code release

[ulugbekna]

Hi 👋

VS Code team engineer here 🙂

We're reworking how we parse when clause contexts and noticed that we may break some of the when clauses used in your extension. You can read more in this issue, which describes upcoming changes: new features, breakages, and migration advice (latest VS Code Insiders now has a linter for when clauses and runs the new parser as default). You can also leave us feedback there.

Thanks for a great extension, it's very popular!

Best,
Ulugbek

[AnanyaJha]

Thanks for sharing @ulugbekna! Appreciate the heads up, we'll get started on evaluating the impact to our Extension

[CristiCanizales]

Hello @ulugbekna ! Hope you're doing great. Just to confirm, the or would be || now but not for the regex cases - that would still be |, right?
Thank you in advance!

[ulugbekna]

Hi @CristiCanizales :-)

Hm, if I understand your question correctly, then yes, an || operator in a when clause and | in a regex pattern are unrelated.

Perhaps the updated docs help - https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/when-clause-contexts#match-operator