| [platform-ui-dev] Generic Editor (was Re: Enhanced extensibility for the default text editor in Eclipse) |
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Hi all, Dani and I had the opportunity to meet in the last couple of days and to work together on this topic, and it was IMHO a productive meeting to find a way to have this extensible editor fit into Platform. As there is a strong opposition against changing the default text editor, decision was taken to create a new editor supporting extensibility. This story is tracked in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=497871 . Then one can easily contribute specific behavior to this generic text editor, according to the content-type of the document it's editing. The proposal on https://git.eclipse.org/r/75921 was updated to make the generic editor a new one, without changing anything of the basic text editor. It also includes some example of extensions that add to to the generic editor support for better edition of .project files (syntax highlighting, completion, hover). Some local tests manged to take advantage of LicLipse or Language Server Protocol ( https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=496114 ) to provide those features as extension to the generic editor. Another obvious extension that would be interesting but that is not yet started would provide syntax highlighting and some grammatical completion using TextMate ( https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486961 ) Extenders providing extension for a given content-type would be responsible of associating the content-type with the Generic Editor. This note is mostly to give some general status, please prefer using the most related bugs for technical discussion. Cheers, |