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Jan Lahoda commented on NETBEANS-7: ----------------------------------- FWIW, I have a prototype of a lexer and a syntax highlighting based on that, which uses tm4e: [https://github.com/eclipse/tm4e] to lex based on a TextMate grammars. > Provide basic editor features (syntax highlighting, braces matching, > completion, etc) for more file types > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: NETBEANS-7 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-7 > Project: NetBeans > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: ide - UI > Reporter: Emilian Bold > Priority: Major > > We could provide basic editor features (syntax highlighting, braces matching, > completion, etc) for more languages based on the existing corpus of > definitions from other editors/IDEs. See > * > http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php?title=User_Defined_Language_Files > * http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/extensibility/syntaxdefs.html > * https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/language-support > * http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/extras/wordfiles.html#wordfiles > The basic editor features would usually get replaced once more proper plugins > are installed for a given language. > We could even introduce a mechanism to promote to users the full plugins > (from the Plugin Portal, etc) once they start editing given file types. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists