The Platform Text component consists of the following plug-ins:
- org.eclipse.core.filebuffers:
- headless file buffer infrastructure - org.eclipse.text
- headless text infrastructure providing a document abstraction - org.eclipse.jface.text
- text viewer working on documents
- supports additions for content assist, formatting, presentation and model reconciling as well as vertical rulers - org.eclipse.workbench.texteditor
- abstract implementation of an Eclipse text editor using text viewers - org.eclipse.ui.editors
- the Eclipse Default Text Editor
- bug annotation conventions
- incomplete bugzilla report memo
- common ui message issues
- coding conventions
Additional rules used in the Platform Text project:
- instance variables start with an f prefix
- non final static variables start with an fg prefix
- we use the compact assignment form (a= b, i.e. no space on the left of equals)
- "Text Editor Recipes" tutorial
- Tutorial slides (more formats in the zip file)
- Zip file containing the presentation, example code and other materials used in the tutorial
- Poster "Season's Text Editor Recipes"
- Example code used in the tutorial "Contributing to Eclipse: understanding and writing plug-ins"
- state after "Becoming an Extender"
- state after "Becoming an Enabler"
- state after "Getting away from being part of an IDE: RCP Application"
- deployed stand-alone RCP application based on SDK build 3.1
- Presentation "Text editors and how to implement your own"
- Poster "Editor centric Workbench"
- Example code used in the tutorial "Contributing to Eclipse: understanding and writing plug-ins".
- Check out the RCP text editor examples