Forward syntax highlighting to this extension

[HackXIt]

Greetings,

I am currently attempting to adapt an extension (pio assembly syntax highlighting) and I was hoping that there is a possibility, that I can forward syntax highlighting for the embedded c-code towards vscode-cpptools.

The extension would then have a dependency enabled, requiring 'vscode-cpptools', but that would be enabled on most if not all users, given that the target language will mostly be C/C++

The extension uses grammar rules written in pio.tmLanguage.json, since the instruction set of the raspberry pi pico is very small and manageable.

However, I was missing the functionality to have the extension also run on a remote host (such as a raspberry pi) and am currently working on adding that.

In the course of this, I thought it would also be nice, if the embedded c-code from those .pio files could benefit from the syntax highlighting of the regular c/c++ extension.

And that's where I am now. ChatGPT suggested adding this to the language patterns:

{
    "begin": "%c-sdk \\{",
    "end": "%\\}",
    "name": "embedded.c.code",
    "contentName": "pio-source.c",
    "patterns": [
        {
            "include": "pio-source.c"
        }
    ]
}

But I doubt that is enough to get it to work.
I don't really have a clue if what I'm thinking about is even possible. I'd just like to forward the syntax highlighting of a specific text section to another extension.

Any insight & help would be greatly appreciated.

[HackXIt]

closed due to: #11732