Re: [mylyn-integrators] Re: Default hyperlink detection fails

[Steffen Pingel <steffenp@xxxxxx>]

Yes, that is correct. We are planning to make highlighting in the task editor 
extensible in future versions:

200613: [api] allow connectors to contribute patterns to 
TaskTextViewerConfiguration
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=200613

Steffen


On Friday 21 March 2008, Dennis Rietmann wrote:
> Thanks for the input, I tried it with the extension point but it did'nt
> work either (unsurprisingly) as I see now, the TaskHyperlinkDetector
> which calls findHyperLinks on the connectorUi also implements the
> hyperlink detector extension point ;-)
> As far as I understood it it is currently not possible at all to extend
> the patterns in the RepositoryTextScanner to color the custom hyperlinks
> - is this correct?
>
> regards,
> Dennis
>
> Steffen Pingel wrote:
> >> I see that apart from findHyperlinks the trac connector also implements
> >> the org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor.hyperlinkDetectors extension
> >> point. The detector will eventually call
> >> TracHyperlinkUtil.findTracHyperlinks which also includes the links
> >> detected by
> >> TracHyperlinkUtil.findTicketHyperlinks. The later is called by the
> >> TracConnectorUi.findHyperlinks.
> >> What I don't understand here is the relation between these two ways of
> >> detecting links (connectorUI vs extension point - this does not seem to
> >> have anything to do with coloring) - can you give me some more details?
> >
> > Trac has very extensive support for hyperlinking to different repository
> > artifacts like changesets and wiki pages. This conflicted with other
> > hyperlink detectors when Trac repositories were linked to Python
> > projects. To fix that I split up the Trac hyperlink detector. This bug
> > has more details:
> >
> > 215978: limit extended Trac hyperlinking support to task editor
> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=215978
> >
> > As Frank pointed out we are in the process of refactoring
> > RepositoryTextScanner to use the same regular expression based patterns
> > for hyperlink detection and syntax highlighting. Mylyn's extensibility is
> > currently limited to hyperlink detection but once bug 167941 is resolved
> > this will hopefully be unfied in a single API.
> >
> > Steffen
>
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