Features

The motivation to create this extension was to solve the following problem:

• The source files are e.g. in the directory ${workspaceFolder}/src/myapp
• This directory has a symlink to ${workspaceFolder}/build/app/myapp
• The directory ${workspaceFolder}/build/app/myapp is excluded from VS Code searches to avoid duplicating search results.
• Source files are added to the build scripts from the ${workspaceFolder}/build/app/myapp directory.
• For example, the application is compiled in ${workspaceFolder}/bin/myapp/debug

If you compile such a code and the compiler throws an error, the terminal will say for example:

../../../build/app/myapp/main.c:10:5: Some error message.

This file will not be clickable in the terminal because ${workspaceFolder}/build/app/myapp is excluded from the search.

Extension Settings

The following settings causes the file will be opened at ${workspaceFolder}/src/myapp/main.c:10:5

Add the following settings to your ${workspaceFolder}.vscode/settings.json:

"overwriteTerminalFileLink" :
{
    "overwrite" : {
        "^(\\.\\.\/)*build\\/app": "src" 
    },
    "fileLineColPatterns" : [
        {
            // VC++ - 'path/to/file.c(123): message'
            "pattern": "(^.*)\\((\\d+)\\):\\s.*$",
            "file": 1,
            "line": 2
        },
        {
            // gcc - 'path/to/file.c:123:13: message'
            "pattern": "(^.*):(\\d+):(\\d+):\\s?.*$",
            "file": 1,
            "line": 2,
            "col": 3
        }
    ]
}

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release of Overwrite Terminal File Link.