[orion-dev] Try out a new outline view for Javascript

[Mark MacDonald <Mark_MacDonald@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Recently I've been experimenting with UglifyJS's parse-js library [1] for building _javascript_ syntax trees. I've used it to provide a version of the outline view that shows your _javascript_ functions in a tree, rather than the flat list we currently get from JSLint.

It's packaged as an Orion plugin, which you can try out like this:

1. Make sure you're running an Orion build from 08/29 or later
   
2. (Workaround for Bug 355895) Open the file /org.eclipse.orion.client.core/web/defaults.pref and comment out this line:
   "/plugins/jslintPlugin.html":true,
   Then reload http://localhost:8080/defaults.pref in your browser to make sure it's not cached.
   
3. Log into Orion, go to the Plugins page, uninstall jslintPlugin.html
   
4. Install the new plugin:
   http://mamacdon.github.com/0.3/plugins/newoutline/newoutlinePlugin.html
   
5. The next time you edit a _javascript_ file, you'll see the outline tree in the left-hand pane.

To revert, uninstall newoutlinePlugin.html and uncomment the line from Step 2.

The plugin uses a few heuristics to infer the names of anonymous functions. If you find cases where the names are confusing or wrong, please let me know.

Mark


[1] https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS/blob/master/lib/parse-js.js