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Re: [platform-dev] using lex/yacc files for syntax highlighting
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On Monday 17 January 2005 04.37, Chet Murphy wrote:
> However, a full parser is useful for building a content tree view and
> for code completion for an editor. A full parser could also be used to
> provide an auto indent capability.
exactly my line of thinking !
Since I am writing the scanner/parser for the real compiler anyway, what extra
do I need to do to get it integrated into an eclipse editor ?
When I was briefly looking at the Java editor, I saw a lot of abstract syntax
tree code. I guess there must already be some code in eclipse that can be
reused. Using lex/yacc it would be fairly easy to create a tree structure
from the source code.
when looking at the samle editor that comes with the eclipse sdk, there seems
to be a completely different infrastructure in place for syntax hl, and
completion etc. So what I had in mind was to use the lex/yacc input files to
generate the necessary java code. Does that sound doable ?
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> Chet
Henrik
