The eclipse editor in work

[Frank Benoit]

BLS schrieb:
> Hallo Frank, I've just annotated your text with // xxx
> 
> Frank Benoit schrieb:
>> Currently I am working on porting the component JFace.Text.
>> This is the editor that eclipse uses internally.
>>
>> AFAIK the only graphical Editor available for D GUI is Scintilla. This
>> one is used in DCode/Entice, Poseidon. JFace.Text will bring in a new
>> Editor component, ported from Java to pure D.
>> Does someone know if a comparison JFace.Text vs. Scintilla exists?
>>
>> Key Features of JFace.Text
>> - Undo/Redo/find/replace  //Yes
>> - Linenumbers    //Yes
>> - Text templates  // Yes
>> - Folding  //Yes
>> - Problem+Quickfix markers with automatic update while typing // Doable
>> - Hovers, Links // No... - Context menu management  // Yes
>> - Proposals // Don't know
>> - Rules as basis for parsing the text  // Scintilla Lexer
>> - Annotation of the text (put problem description or breakpoint location
>> to the text) //Doable
>> - Syntax highlightning  // Yes
>> - Revisions of the text and difference view // Don't know, but I've
>> never seen someting similar for Scintilla
>> - ....
>>
>> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Folding-in-Eclipse-Text-Editors/folding.html
>>
>> http://www.jdg2e.com/ch26.jface.text/doc/index.html
>> http://www.realsolve.co.uk/site/tech/jface-text.php
>>
>> The current state is that 434 of 443 files are compilable.
>>
>> So the boring stuff is done, now some manual coding is still needed to
>> implement missing stuff from the java runtime environment
>> (BufferedReader,StringReader,Pattern,Matchers,...) and some Java
>> synchronize stuff.
> Guess you will "map" BufferedReader and StringReader to tango.io. ??
> 
> Do you plan to implement Pattern and Matchers around tango's regex, or
> do you plan to create something new ?
> bjoern
> beside, having a look at the DWTxxx repo. from time to time it becomes
> more and more clear  that you will be soon pretty much prepared for
> Declipse...
> 
> 

I will not map (alias?), but do wrappers. See dwt.dwthelper or
dwtx.dwtxhelper. And those wrappers are around tango, but they could be
reimplemented for phobos also *blink*