| Re: [platform-ui-dev] Enhanced extensibility for the default text editor in Eclipse |
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On 06/27/2016 01:59 PM, Tom Schindl
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In some other bugs, Dani proposed a new editor that would be labeled "Code Editor" or "Source Editor". I think it would make sense to rename the current text editor, which already relies on the TextSourceViewerConfigurator and maybe to provide a very raw editor, which wouldn't support none of hyperlink, completion, coloration/styling, hover...Then please also rename "Open With > Text editor" to "Open With > Smart editor" as the editor I get IS NOT a simple text-editor anymore. However, I have the feeling as we've made some basic progress on this topic that the "Code" features we're providing are not that much related to source code, but are actually advanced edition features that can be useful also for whatever textual edition. For example, completion is something that is provided by LibreOffice to complete words according to the dictionary. So IMO, we're not talking about Code vs non-Code. We're talking about "raw editor" vs "rich editor". As the current Text Editor already supports hyperlinks and uses a TextSourceViewerConfigurator, it's already a rich editor. I guess we're all ready to go for whatever works for all of us ;) It's just that at the moment, changing current editor seems to be the most "natural" way. But we do not ignore comments such as the one you made and consider how those would fit well in this change.Anyways I stop arguing we have different positions and you are not changing your position and so do I. Concretely, what would you think about having a "Raw editor" with about nothing in it, rather than the current "Text Editor" that we aim to support more advanced edition?Please note that this is NOT about doing this which IS something I really really want to see. If I download 300MB I really want any freaking language file to open with syntax highlighting but you are removing an option (Open With > Text editor) which I don't want to see happen. So for a given *.js file as example, there would be: Open With > * _javascript_ editor * Rich Text Editor (current Text Editor) * Raw Text Editor ? |