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Keyword Highlighting In A Standalone Application? [message #1751238]

Fri, 06 January 2017 04:34

Sam Patterson

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Registered: June 2016

Junior Member

Is it possible to make use of Xtext's keyword highlighting in a standalone program? I'm creating a custom text editor for a DSL and it would be really handy to be able to use the keyword highlighter instead of implementing one manually.

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Re: Keyword Highlighting In A Standalone Application? [message #1751241 is a reply to message #1751238]

Fri, 06 January 2017 08:00

Karsten Thoms

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Dortmund, Germany

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Hi Sam,

yes, with the upcoming Xtext 2.11 (Jan 24th) we support the Language Server Protocol. With that you can use your DSL runtime as a language server and get coloring information from it. For you particulary the Document Highlight request is interesting: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/blob/master/protocol.md#textDocument_documentHighlight

A beta for 2.11 is already available on the milestone repository.

Your job would be to implement the client side of the LSP and embed a language server (which is mainly starting org.eclipse.xtext.ide.server.ServerLauncher and connecting it to your app).

HTH,
~Karsten

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Re: Keyword Highlighting In A Standalone Application? [message #1751242 is a reply to message #1751241]

Fri, 06 January 2017 08:18

Sven Efftinge

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Registered: January 2016
Location: Kiel

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The LSP doesn't support syntax highlighting (the mentioned request is about 'mark occurences').
However, we have built an extension to the LSP for semantic coloring, which you could use. For just coloring keywords this seems to be a bit overkill, though.
Do you plan to support more editing features in your standalone app? What technology is it written in?

Cheers,
Sven

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