This extension for Visual Studio Code provides language support for LAMMPS (Molecular dynamics Software) Scripts. This package is being synchronised with the Lammps documentation through a continuous integration pipeline on a monthly schedule to keep the keyword lists and embedded command documentations up to date.

• Syntax Highlighting for Keywords, Variables and Data Types
• Folding possible between Markers #[ and #]
• Recognizes .lmp, .lmps and .lammps file extensions and files beginning with "in."

• Right click on a command allows to open a documentation page inside vscode

• Completion suggestions with corresponding informations are displayed
• Functionality can be turned off
• Different information-display options possible

• Information about Lammps commands are displayed when hovering over them
• Appearance of the hover panel is customisable

• Different preconfigured run tasks can be executed
• Path to Lammps executable must be set in the extensions settings
• Tasks of "type": "lmps" can also be configured manually in a tasks.json file

• Set of functions that points out problems before runtime
• So far implemented:
  • checking for files and paths on read- and write commands
  • checking for unbalanced/non-closed brackets
  • checking for exceeding maximum # of group definitions
• To be extended in the future

• Shows system information like CPU,GPU(Nvidia only) and memory usage
• interactive 3D Visualisation of atomic dumps
• interactive plots of lammps log file data
• automatically updating plots for easy live observation of simulation status

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