I just downloaded the EPIC Perl plugin for Eclipse and then opened a Perl script (.pl) contained within an existing C++ project. The editor does not have syntax highlighting or any of the other promised features of EPIC. The only thing that has changed is that the script has a camel icon in the Project Explorer.
I open a different .pl file in a different directory within the same project and it works (syntax highlighting).
How do I activate the features of EPIC for the first file?
I'm using Eclipse Kepler on Windows 7.
(the only thing I can think of is that the first file was open in Eclipse before I installed the plugin, the second file was not. But closing/reopening the file and/or Eclipse does not fix the problem)
Right-click on the the file in the Navigator, choose "Open With" and then "Epic Perl Editor".
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I just upgraded to Eclipse 2020-09 (4.17.0) from Eclipse Luna. After installing, I installed Eclipse Web Developer Tools 3.19 from the Marketplace, then restarted Eclipse. When I open a .js file, there is no syntax highlighting. It was fine out of the box with Luna, so is there anything extra that I need to configure in 2020-09? File associations for *.js shows this:
It seems JavaScript files (*.js) have been associated with the plain text editor instead of the Generic Text Editor by mistake (please make sure it has been reported to Eclipse).
Right-click the file and choose Open With > Generic Text Editor.
Or better, associate all *.js files with the Generic Text Editor by right-click a *.js file, choose Open With > Other..., select the Generic Text Editor in the list and tick the Use it for all '.js' files* checkbox at the bottom (as shown in my video here).
Yes, you need to install the Wild Web Developer feature so that it provides that functionality through the Generic Text Editor.
I am searching for a solution of how to associate .cgi extension with Perl language (to highlight syntax correctly) in Perl Epic under Eclipse 3.8.1 Linux x64? Currently it highlights only files with .pl extension. When opening .cgi or files without any extensions the Eclipse highlights them very different than Perl Epic is set up.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
You'll need to create a new file association and associate the "Epic Perl Editor" with it. Also see Associating Files with the Perl Editor in the EPIC documentation, which says:
Eclipse associates file extensions with editors. If another plug-in is
installed, the EPIC Perl Editor might not be used as the default
editor when opening *.pl, *.pm or *.cgi files. To associate these file
extensions with the Perl Editor, choose Window → Preferences... from
the Eclipse menu and select Workbench → File Associations. If the Perl
extensions are missing, they can be created by pressing the Add...
button. Select the Perl Editor from the list and press the Default
button.
Eclipse has a nice feature that builds your codes on the fly.
However, for some reason, I have had a source .java developed in Emacs under some directory, say, ˜/mycode. Now I want to use the auto builds functionality of Eclipse, but I do prefer to develop the .java file under its original ˜/mycode directory. So apparently, I CANNOT use "import" of Eclipse because that means the file will be henceforth developed under some Eclipse Workspace.
This is the reason why I have to use Eclipse's menu's "open a file" to open my file from ~/mycode.
Then the problem comes, no more auto-build for this .java file!! For example, if I write one line like "abcd;;;;;" I will not get this line underlined by the syntax checker of Eclipse.
In summary, I would like to continue developing a code under its original directory, and also benefit from the auto-build functionality of Eclipse. What can i do? Thanks.
Is it possible to use external command line tools in Netbeans?
Thank you.
After searching and searching and searching, this feature is just missing in netbeans although it would absolutely straightforward to implement and has been ask by user for 2 more than years...
Regards,
Stéphane
There is a Terminal window in NetBeans 7:
Open the menu, Window -> Output -> Terminal
What about using an Ant target? Ant files are quite comfortable to run from Netbeans.
<exec executable="${executable-full-path}" ...
The best option I've found is to use jmarsault's plugin that he calls NetBeans Command Shortcuts. This give you an icon in the command line where you can add command and terminal scripts to run. The display shows in the output window.
Installation files are available here and he has kept it up to date with the newest versions of NetBeans.
NetBeans Command Shortcut plugin
Installation:
Download the .nbm file for your version of NetBeans
Open Tools / Plugins / Downloaded / Add Plugins...
Select the .nbm file and allow the installation of the plugin.
In since at least version 9.0, there are two decent options:
Just create a script file. (I think you need the C++ plugin for this. Otherwise you have to create it outside NetBeans or as a text file.) In my case I created a JLinkGDBServer.sh that just executes JLinkGDBServer as a prerequisite to start an embedded debug session. This automatically sends the executable's output to a NetBeans terminal.
Add a tool to Tools/Options/Miscellaneous/SendTo. SendTo is a pop-up menu item for certain project entities, for example files but not the project. In my case, I could add a SendTo running the executable and use it by right-clicking on for example the .elf file (although for the GDB server I don't need any file name as an argument).
There is a Python project created by using Vim and Coda which doesn't include any editor specific file. I'm used to use Eclipse as an editor so I want to work on this project using Eclipse. But I don't know how to do it without to create a new project in Eclipse or without importing it. Because I don't want to get a copy of these files. I just want to edit like I can do in Coda or Vim.
From Eclipse do File->Open and it will load the file even if not in a project
From the command line on my machine the expected open -a Eclipse.app t.py does not work as Eclipse has not registered itself as being able to associate Python script files (it also fails to open java files so is Eclipse not pydev setup)