Tips and Tricks

Here are some tips and tricks that you might find useful when working with RobotCode.

Customization

Editor Style

You can change some stylings for RobotFramework files in VSCode editor, independently of the current theme. (see Customizing a Color Theme)

See the difference:

Before	After

As a template you can put the following code to your user settings of VSCode.

Open the user settings.json like this:

Ctrl + Shift + P or F1 or CMD + Shift + P

and then type:

Preferences: Open Settings (JSON)

put this to the settings.json

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
    "textMateRules": [
        {
            "scope": "variable.function.keyword-call.inner.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "italic"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "variable.function.keyword-call.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                //"fontStyle": "bold"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "string.unquoted.embeddedArgument.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "italic"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "entity.name.function.testcase.name.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold underline"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "entity.name.function.keyword.name.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold italic"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "variable.name.readwrite.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                //"fontStyle": "italic",
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "keyword.control.import.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "italic"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "keyword.other.header.setting.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold underline"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "keyword.other.header.variable.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold underline"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "keyword.other.header.testcase.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold underline"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "keyword.other.header.keyword.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold underline"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "keyword.other.header.setting.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold underline"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "keyword.other.header.comment.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold italic underline"
            }
        },
        {
            "scope": "string.unquoted.escape.robotframework",
            "settings": {
                //"foreground": "#FF0000",
            }
        }
    ]
},

"editor.semanticTokenColorCustomizations": {
    "rules": {
        "*.documentation:robotframework": {
            "fontStyle": "italic",
            //"foreground": "#aaaaaa"
        }
    }
}