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

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Sopot and Mickael, sounds like a great initiative. Simplifying
the support of new languages is definitely needed to keep the Eclipse
IDE relevant for new languages.

Best regrds, Lars

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen
<manderse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> This is not a concern just something I would do if I'd invest the time
>> and money but I can understand that this is nothing your employer is
>> interested in and naturally you are faster.
>
>
> Red Hat would love to be able to share some of this logic outside Eclipse
> Desktop IDE's
> but you are right it is a higher priority for us to see movement in the IDE
> improvements;
> so if the extend current editor gets us there faster it has a clear
> advantage over something
> that might take a long time to get in.
>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> There are good chances that you'll won't and there's absolutely no need
>> to impose the smartness you think is cool (and so do I most of the time)
>> to any existing customer of TextEditor and in the same vein remove the
>> option to open a file to just see its content.
>
>
> I don't think anyone is suggesting a plain text editor should be impossible
> to open.
>
> My expectations is that wether a file gets open with syntax highlighting is
> dependent on content-types or similar setup to trigger it.
>
> And if you really want to open in a stupid dumb text editor then we should
> still provide a basic text editor that doesn't do anything IMO.
>
>> Suppose there's the following situation: I open Text-File with 150_000
>> lines of code, your smart stuff kicks in but unfortunately the
>> TextMate-Grammer for this specific file is so slow that it takes 1
>> minutes to open (not to mention I'm not even able to edit it).
>
>
> I hope we won't block the UI :)
>
>> I know I just want to change a single char. How do I go about that if
>> you push your solution?
>
>
> by opening the basic text editor.
>
> basic (dumb text) editor is not necessarily the same as the default
> (smarter) editor.
>
> Wouldn't that work ?
> /max
> http://about.me/maxandersen
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