Comments on: General Purpose Editor Within Eclipse

By: David Bernard

David Bernard — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:38:18 +0000

I recently found Afae.

”
Afae stands for Another Freebooter’s All-purpose Editor. It is a group of plugins for Eclipse that do the following:

* Syntax highlighting for many types of files.
* MetaWeblog plugin for posting to your blog
* Keystroke comments
* An image viewer and basic re-sizer for GIF, JPG, ICO, and PNG
* Snippets inserter with trigger text and variable replacement.
* A while-you-edit XML DTD and XML Schema validator
* Much more…
”
http://wiki.robrohan.com/index.html#Afae

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:09:52 +0000

Hmmm… at the same time, I do like occasionally launching jEdit as an external editor. I wonder if there isn’t a way to solve its type weirdness, which I had also noticed. Any jEdit experts?

I’ve spent a lot of time with TextMate, and I feel like jEdit is a better “platform” — even on a single platform, let alone the fact that you can use it off a Mac. But this “fugly” thing is an issue.

By: Daniel Spiewak

Daniel Spiewak — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:04:37 +0000

Ah, the chambery.subfire.org screenshot finally loaded for me. It’s an interesting idea actually, implementing a text-editor as a stand-alone Eclipse app, but I’m not sure I’d want to load anything that heavy-weight for simple text editing.

As a plugin though, it seems a lot more interesting. I’m a little leery about using a C++ based coloring library, but I’d imagine it’d be nice and fast. I’ll have to put this on my “to check” list. Can you add syntaxes (like Color Editor allows adding of jEdit modes)? Also, does it have more advanced features like auto-insertion of brackets in recognized languages, etc.. ?

By: Todd Chambery

Todd Chambery — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:28:30 +0000

A screenshot (http://chambery.subfire.org/images/Screenshot%20-%20Padclipse.png) illustrating its big flaw: it’s dependence on the workspace metaphor. It will be interesting to see how they overcome this, and what how it might improve Eclipse itself.

BTW, I’m jEdit’s biggest fan (particularly its regex search and replace), but it seems a little clunky these days for most of my text editing tasks.

By: Erkki Lindpere

Erkki Lindpere — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:09:33 +0000

I added a couple of screenshots of Padclipse here: https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=197595

Padclipse currently uses the Eclipse Colorer editor ( http://colorer.sourceforge.net/ ) to provide syntax highlighting for many languages. In future versions, this plug-in might be replaced with something else, though.

By: Daniel Spiewak

Daniel Spiewak — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:29:03 +0000

Hmm, looks interesting. I couldn’t find screenshots though, are there any available?

What I’m really looking for at this point is the same sorts of features provided by jEdit, and I mean more than just universal syntax highlighting. SuperAbrevs is like a divine gift to the universe as a whole (I love Tab completion), and jEdit’s syntax highlighting *is* more advanced than Color Editor is able to replicate.

By: Todd Chambery

Todd Chambery — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:27:03 +0000

Since you mention the eclipse colorer, take a look at Padclipse (http://padclipse.sourceforge.net/), a first crack at Eclipse-as-text-editor. It has some major gaps, very 0.1, but it has the virtue of letting me use my Eclipse custom keybindings (http://chambery.subfire.org/images/keybindings.png). The plug-in framework offers some interesting (and ironic) possibilities.

By: inw

inw — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:37:26 +0000

I _love_ it!