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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Started the Platform UI Roadmap 4.7

Hi,

Although I cannot commit to any result or schedule, I have in my plans to contribute to have the text editor supporting coloration and content-assist without the need to create a new editor, for example relying on textmate grammars, but probably allowing to hook up any coloration/content-assist strategy to the text editor.
The idea would be that the Text Editor could provide some basic features for most file types without the need to specialize it and to create a specific editor, but only relying on external services or an internal registry of grammars to add that behaviour.
Tom Schindl and Angelo Zerr have already made some work on this topic, and here is the current entry point or this story https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486961 .
I believe this is a big topic that could be titled "Reducing cost of basic support for new languages"

Some other bugs/topics I'm interested in that will probably affect Platform/UI
* https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489540 and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=102527 , is a sub-topic of the user experience topic that I would call "Make the IDE forgiving mistakes and helpful for poor users". In general, I'll try to be careful about which error report and quickfixes can help the users directly in the IDE rather than forcing them to go read bad answers and StackOverflow.
* https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489719 and maybe even considering a "Welcome Questionnaire" like Oomph initiated, but maybe more at the Platform UI/IDE level. This would be also a sub-topic of UX, that could be title "You're more and more welcome!"
* https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489799 and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489719 (again), also in the UX I guess, about making it comfortable and productive to have Eclipse as default editor in the OS.
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Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat
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