Comment 1 Stanley Hillner 2012-11-02 09:07:30 EDT

Created attachment 223103 [details]
Feature proposal for annotation-based RichString extensions.

Here is a patch containing my proposal for the extension of the RichString highlighting and content assist features.

Both features can be enabled and disabled using the newly introduced annotation 'RichString'. If the Highlighting or the content assist feature is enabled, the work is delegated to the extension providing the appropriate delegate. If no such delegate exists, nothing happens and the RichStrings behave as if no annotation is present. Furthermore there is a content assist available for the configured languages. It is also possible to change the highlighting colors at the xtend syntax coloring preference page.

I will add some screenshots afterwards to give a short impression of the new features.

Comment 2 Stanley Hillner 2012-11-02 09:10:01 EDT

This feature proposal handles the request Bug 377382.

Comment 3 Stanley Hillner 2012-11-02 09:28:48 EDT

Created attachment 223106 [details]
Syntax coloring example

Comment 4 Stanley Hillner 2012-11-02 09:29:23 EDT

Created attachment 223107 [details]
Content assist example

Comment 5 Stanley Hillner 2012-11-02 09:29:48 EDT

Created attachment 223108 [details]
Content assist for languages

Comment 6 Stanley Hillner 2012-11-02 09:30:09 EDT

Created attachment 223109 [details]
Highlighting preferences

Comment 7 Sven Efftinge 2012-11-08 05:49:29 EST

*** Bug 377382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Sven Efftinge 2013-09-16 12:44:00 EDT

This is really a cool feature.
I'd like to support this via library. So we need to come up with some macro facilities to support this kind of things.