velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText
Hi all, I've long thought that the Velocity could do with a better editor plugin for Eclipse. I know there are a 2 or 3 out there already (veloedit being my usual plugin of choice) but they're beginning to look a bit outdated next to some of the rather nice XText-based editors I've seen for things like Less-css and cukes/gherkin. Motivated by a personal desire to have a go with XText, I was thinking to have a go at creating a XText-based Eclipse editor plugin for Velocity. My question(s) to people on this list are: - How useful (or not) do people think this might be to them (i.e. is it worth the effort?) - Does anyone have any experience with XText and/or advice/suggestions for creating an XText grammar for VTL? Cheers, Chris
Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText
Sounds like a good idea. I don't personally use Eclipse, so it wouldn't be of use to me, unfortunately. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Christopher Townson < christopher.town...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've long thought that the Velocity could do with a better editor plugin > for Eclipse. I know there are a 2 or 3 out there already (veloedit being my > usual plugin of choice) but they're beginning to look a bit outdated next > to some of the rather nice XText-based editors I've seen for things like > Less-css and cukes/gherkin. > > Motivated by a personal desire to have a go with XText, I was thinking to > have a go at creating a XText-based Eclipse editor plugin for Velocity. > > My question(s) to people on this list are: > > - How useful (or not) do people think this might be to them (i.e. is it > worth the effort?) > - Does anyone have any experience with XText and/or advice/suggestions for > creating an XText grammar for VTL? > > Cheers, > > Chris >
Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText
I would probably use it, but I'm still stuck on Velocity 1.3.1 at present. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Christopher Townson wrote: > Hi all, > > I've long thought that the Velocity could do with a better editor plugin > for Eclipse. I know there are a 2 or 3 out there already (veloedit being my > usual plugin of choice) but they're beginning to look a bit outdated next > to some of the rather nice XText-based editors I've seen for things like > Less-css and cukes/gherkin. > > Motivated by a personal desire to have a go with XText, I was thinking to > have a go at creating a XText-based Eclipse editor plugin for Velocity. > > My question(s) to people on this list are: > > - How useful (or not) do people think this might be to them (i.e. is it > worth the effort?) > - Does anyone have any experience with XText and/or advice/suggestions for > creating an XText grammar for VTL? > > Cheers, > > Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText
I'm all for something better. I don't have much experience with Xtext, but it has to be better than the plain text editor I use now! Mark On 9/25/2014 7:07 AM, Christopher Townson wrote: Hi all, I've long thought that the Velocity could do with a better editor plugin for Eclipse. I know there are a 2 or 3 out there already (veloedit being my usual plugin of choice) but they're beginning to look a bit outdated next to some of the rather nice XText-based editors I've seen for things like Less-css and cukes/gherkin. Motivated by a personal desire to have a go with XText, I was thinking to have a go at creating a XText-based Eclipse editor plugin for Velocity. My question(s) to people on this list are: - How useful (or not) do people think this might be to them (i.e. is it worth the effort?) - Does anyone have any experience with XText and/or advice/suggestions for creating an XText grammar for VTL? Cheers, Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText
I am all in favor of this since I use Eclipse and velocity quite often. Just wondering if you saw this plugin already: https://code.google.com/p/velocity-edit/ I used it quite often without much issues. Cheers, Guillaume Le 25/09/2014 18:18, Mark Fenbers (NOAA Federal) a écrit : I'm all for something better. I don't have much experience with Xtext, but it has to be better than the plain text editor I use now! Mark On 9/25/2014 7:07 AM, Christopher Townson wrote: Hi all, I've long thought that the Velocity could do with a better editor plugin for Eclipse. I know there are a 2 or 3 out there already (veloedit being my usual plugin of choice) but they're beginning to look a bit outdated next to some of the rather nice XText-based editors I've seen for things like Less-css and cukes/gherkin. Motivated by a personal desire to have a go with XText, I was thinking to have a go at creating a XText-based Eclipse editor plugin for Velocity. My question(s) to people on this list are: - How useful (or not) do people think this might be to them (i.e. is it worth the effort?) - Does anyone have any experience with XText and/or advice/suggestions for creating an XText grammar for VTL? Cheers, Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText
On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 09:09 -0700, Nathan Bubna wrote: > Sounds like a good idea. I don't personally use Eclipse, so it wouldn't be > of use to me, unfortunately. I'm in the same boat. However, I do use Jetbrains' Intellij IDEA which has an excellent Velocity macro plug-in that has worked very well for me. Regards, David - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
