Re: [platform-ui-dev] Enhanced extensibility for the default text editor

[Sopot Cela <scela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We did take your concerns into account. As far as I understood, they could be categorized in two points:

  - it's not reusable outside the IDE
  - it will interfere with other editors

We are not expecting this to be used outside of the IDE, or reused 'lower' in the stack. This is is designed to be an enrichment of the IDE text editor. There will have to be other efforts to design a universal smart editor to be developed much lower in the stack. We felt this is the fastest way to give a better text editor/basic language support to Eclipse.

Your hints were helpful in keeping an eye in minimizing the disruptions though and we'll keep that in mind as this evolves. We could check if there is another editor registered with the type of file and if so, disable this smartness for this type of file while keeping it tweakable in the preferences. 

We'll react to them as we face them as there is always something escaping the theoretical planning. We have now something concrete which people can try.

Sopot

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "Tom Schindl" <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Aan: platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Verzonden: Maandag 27 juni 2016 13:42:59
> Onderwerp: Re: [platform-ui-dev] Enhanced extensibility for the default text editor in Eclipse
> 
> I raised my concerns and won't repeat them any longer. Just for book
> keeping I'm -1 on that change.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 27.06.16 13:36, Mickael Istria wrote:
> > On 06/27/2016 01:26 PM, Tom Schindl wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Just to get it right you are modifying TextEditor and not subclassing
> >> and do your smart thing there?
> > For the moment that's our proposal.
> > We did read several comments about concerns of such features "leaking"
> > into specialized editors (JDT, SSE, Xtext) but we tried it anyway and it
> > seems that most concerns that were expressed are actually already well
> > handled by the implementation of the specialized editors. So far, our
> > opinion is that it's quite possible to introduce edition features via
> > extension in the default Text Editor without breaking anything, and that
> > it's probably even the simplest way to implement it, and the best way to
> > allow any editor inside Eclipse to take advantage of it.
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