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=== For Developers At Stage Games ===
When working with the internal code base at Stage Games, the Lua extension can get confused about custom pre-compiler directives. To make it ignore #if/#elif/#else/#endif in Lua code, a small modification of the Lua extension is needed. In VS Code, press <code>CTRL + SHIFT + P</code>, write ">open extensions folder" and press enter. Then browse into <code>sumneko.lua-VERSION-win32-x64/server/script/parser</code> and drag the file <code>compile.lua</code> into VS Code. Find the function <code>skipComment</code> near line 532 and change the first few lines of code to the following then save and restart VS Code:
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">local function skipComment(isAction)
    local token = Tokens[Index + 1]
    if token == '--'
    or (
        token == '//'
        and (
            isAction
            or State.options.nonstandardSymbol['//']
        )
    ) or (
        token == '#' and (Tokens[Index + 3] == 'if' or Tokens[Index + 3] == 'elif' or Tokens[Index + 3] == 'else' or Tokens[Index + 3] == 'endif')
    ) then</syntaxhighlight>
When the extension is updated (automatically or manually) this change needs to get applied again.

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