[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Recommendations on using custom file stores

[Ketan Padegaonkar <KetanPadegaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm interested in writing a eclipse based rich text editor that's backed 
by a wiki markup.

I'm currently 'hiding' the wiki markup characters when editing the 
document using a glyph hack that makes a zero width glyph out of the 
wiki markup characters, while giving users the feel of a rich text editor.

What we'd really like is being able to strip out the wiki markup when 
the file is loaded, and be able to put the wiki markup back in (by 
looking at the styled range) when the file is saved.

We've looked at FileBuffers#getTextFileBufferManager() and it seems this 
would help us solve this issue, the problem is that most of this 
infrastructure is internal (not to mention static and final), and 
therefore not subclassable for our use case.

Ideally we'd like an extension point at 
FileBuffersPlugin#getFileBufferManager, but again the interface that's 
returned by this method is internal :(

Does anyone have any recommendations on how this could be done better ?

Cheers,
Ketan Padegaonkar