Re: [platform-ui-dev] Generic Editor (was Re: Enhanced extensibility for

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mickael,

sounds great. Thanks for working on this.

A few questions:

1.) Can the new editor also be reused in multi-page editors? For
example the wikitext editor has one tab for editing and one tab for
preview. If yes, do you expect that some existing editors are migrate
to this?

2.) What are the plans for merging this? If possible this should be
done early so that others can start adapt that.

3.) Where shall the extensions for the code editor live? I think a
non-api bundle which provides support for TextMate syntax would be
very useful. Also text editor support for .project and other files
would be nice to have

4.) Did you check with possible consumers like Fabio from LiClipse to
see if the new editor can be used by them?

Best regards, Lars

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Dani and I had the opportunity to meet in the last couple of days and to
> work together on this topic, and it was IMHO a productive meeting to find a
> way to have this extensible editor fit into Platform.
>
> As there is a strong opposition against changing the default text editor,
> decision was taken to create a new editor supporting extensibility. This
> story is tracked in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=497871 .
> Then one can easily contribute specific behavior to this generic text
> editor, according to the content-type of the document it's editing.
> The proposal on https://git.eclipse.org/r/75921 was updated to make the
> generic editor a new one, without changing anything of the basic text
> editor. It also includes some example of extensions that add to to the
> generic editor support for better edition of .project files (syntax
> highlighting, completion, hover).
> Some local tests manged to take advantage of LicLipse or Language Server
> Protocol ( https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=496114 ) to provide
> those features as extension to the generic editor. Another obvious extension
> that would be interesting but that is not yet started would provide syntax
> highlighting and some grammatical completion using TextMate (
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486961 )
>
> Extenders providing extension for a given content-type would be responsible
> of associating the content-type with the Generic Editor.
>
> This note is mostly to give some general status, please prefer using the
> most related bugs for technical discussion.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Mickael Istria
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