Hey all, would like to ping this topic up again, due to I think that some People already knows the differences and can help here to help me, to contribute more to NetBeans 😉. Otherwise please point me to the right person who can help here.
Cheers Chris Von: Christian Lenz Gesendet: Freitag, 6. September 2019 14:46 An: [email protected] Betreff: Creating code hints, fixes, suggestions, rules, etc. Dear all, due to missing hints + fixes which makes the live easier for developers, in editors which are not Java, I want to implement some HTML/CSS/SCSS/JS hints. I looked into the netbeans code and there are Hint classes, Rule classes and I think HintRule and Fix and Suggestion classes and I don't know how to start and what the differences are between them. I read this tutorial: https://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-java-hint.html but it seems that hints/fixes for Java are bit different, there is a JavaFix class and we use some annotations. So to tell you my story, I want to create hints + fixes into the editor of HTML, CSS/SCSS/LESS and JS. I looked into the code of existing CSS/HTML hints but they are not consistent, they are using HintRule classes and sometimes other classes. So to start I need to know what is a Hint, what is a Rule, what is a Fix, what is a Suggestion, etc. So a clean tutorial about the differences of them and how which class is the best to extend the functionality. Some more cases: - sometimes hints w/o fixes doesn’t make sense. - sometimes I want to have hints that are shown, when I open the file and sometimes only at a specific context when my cursor is there to not overload the whole file with hints/suggestions, etc. Concrete examples for JS: - convert anonymous function into arrow function (hint + fix) - change var to let or const (2 fixes, one hint) - convert require to Import (hint + fix) - convert strings to ES6 string literals (hint + fix) - change order of Imports alphabetically or in an other order (hint + fix) - etc. Concrete examples for scss (some of them are relevant for CSS too, but not all): - convert from px to em and vice versa (hint + fix where the Cursor is) - convert selected value into a variable (hint + fix, when value is selected) - convert block into a mixin (hint + fix, when properties, code block and values are selected) Concrete examples for (X)HTML: - add missing width+height attributes of an img tag (hint + fix, maybe on the same line, when I select the image tag, maybe not) - add missing alt attribute of an img tag (hint + fix, Maybe on the same line, when I select the image tag, Maybe not) - etc. I don’t want to discuss wheter all of them are useful or not, in my case they are and also very handy. So I only need help here to understand the logic to create those missing features and a lot more. Cheers Chris
