I've seen similar questions to this on StackOverflow regarding adding highlighting to a language, but what I'm concerned with is getting Eclipse (I'm guessing xtext?) to stop marking certain syntax as incorrect for a language.
Specifically, I have a wrapper from which I call PIG files that looks for certain syntax in the PIG file that would normally be illegal in PIG and substitutes a template for it. I'd like Eclipse to stop marking this syntax as incorrect and giving me ugly red x's in my folder structure because of it. Is there a simple way to do this? Or failing that, to at least disable marking of incorrect for that language in general?
Generally, error markers are created by two entities: editors and builders (compilers). If your existing editor understands the PIG format, it might display parse errors in the opened editor as you are typing. The only way to disable this feature is to re-open the file using a different editor (right-click the file, select Open with... and find an editor - e.g. plain text editor). To support syntax highlighting/error display in other parts, but not in special parts, you have to provide your own editor - that can be written using Xtext.
If the error markers are provided using a builder, then they are only refreshed on save - when it tries to understand the format, and provide an output. In this case, you only have to make sure that the templates are substituted before the file is executed (you can reorder the builder in the project preferences if needed). If you have no such builder, you could disable the PIG builder, that would prevent displaying the erroneous markers (however, it also disables displaying the correct ones as well).
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I have installed GGTS, on ubuntu and am trying to edit .Groovy files with the built in editor.
The autocomplete is extremely annoying because while it will recognize my domain objects i.e. my User class etc.. It doesn't recognize basic groovy, for instance I start typing "def" to define a variable then hit space and it will autocomplete to "Default", similarly if I try to type in "return" it autocompletes to "RETURN" while I am typing as soon as I hit space, which is very annoying.
Like i said it will recognize classes, so if I type def u = new User(), the User part will complete ok, but the problem is that the variable u I defined earlier isn't recgonized later in the code.
I hope you guys get my meaning... No idea how to fix it, short of not using the groovy editor and treating it as plain text. I even tried disabling content assist, but that didn't seem to work for some reason
I was having this problem in GGTS 3.4.0.RELEASE today, and getting very angry with the situation.
Somehow my workspace had the "Auto activation triggers for Java" set to "_.abcd....z" (all the lowercase letters)
Window -> Preferences
Java -> Editor -> Content Assist
"Auto activation triggers for Java" set to just "."
This seems to have helped dramatically.
I'm still not sure what caused my workspace to have this setting.
Make sure that you're in the Grails perspective; that can impact some of the Groovy/Grails features and how Eclipse (even GGTS) leverages them. You'll find the perspective button in the upper right. If you're in Java or Debug, odd things like this may occur.
Also, how are you creating and opening your Groovy files? Do you use the context menus or the Grails command prompt tool to issue orders like "create-controller"? If you're creating the files in some other way, try using those methods to generate them, and see if you get the same results.
Question:
Is there a way to run an eclipse action that is available from the context menu in the editor on every file of an project.
Actual Case:
I have to work with the leon3 and my dull mind has trouble enough understanding the code, that I do not want to scan lines to see if there is a semicolon hidden in there to see if there are multiple instructions or if the end if happens to be behind another instruction rather than on a line of its own (I missed an end if, which caused me to think that statements were conditional,...), therefore I would like to format the source nicely. I have access to Sigasi PRO which offers the option to "beautify" code as an operation in the editor. I would like to run this operation on all files in the leon project automatically.
Sigasi indeed only offers formatting in the editor at this time. In the Sigasi editor, you can format a selection or the entire editor's content. But, you can not trigger the formatting action without an editor.
I have not tried this, but I think you can achieve this with the Eclipse EASE project. EASE is a scripting environment for Eclipse.
I have a file with extension .xml.
But it doesn't necessarily contain XML. It may also contain HTML and JavaScript. Now I would like to either have Eclipse decide inteligently/heuristically which syntax highlighting would be appropriate or to switch it myself.
Any ideas?
Eclipse associates files with an editor. You can let eclipse decide which editor to use (e.g. defaults per file extension) or select the editor by yourself. I guess you might already know that or have at least experienced it.
Syntax highlighting isn't always set seperately but instead part of some editor (together with stuff like keyboard shortcuts). So what you are going to need is an editor that behaves the way you want it to. I do not know if there is an editor like this available but one options is writing an eclipse plug-in and implementing such an editor.
Fortunately there are great editors for each of XML, javascript, HTML, etc that are all open source. I guess you might be able to use some of their code. Ideally as a client of their API / Objects or if it won't work out just by reusing code.
short answer: not possible. use PHPStorm instead :)
I am writing a Java app using Eclipse. This app read a set of Hebrew strings (that are right-to-left). Assuming I put these strings is a separate file, how do I tell the Eclipse editor that they are right-to-left text.
I tried eclipse -dir rtl but that puts all of Eclipse in RTL mode which is not the behavior I looking for.
One alternative is to carefully use StringBuilder.reverse() to manipulate the strings as needed after they are read in.
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/StringBuilder.html#reverse%28%29
You could also write some simple string manipulation methods as helpers to handle whatever special needs you have.
This page, found in a quick google search, seems to have some interesting info on how Java handles and renders Hebrew: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/hebrew.html
How does the Eclipse editor work to enable code completion? For example, within the XML editor for Hibernate property files, if I ctrl-space within a tag, a list of possible value relevant to hibernate will show up.
I understand that the XML editor is pre-configured to understand xml tag, but how about tag specific to a particular framework? How does Eclipse know about that?
I believe that the eclipse XML editor gets the content assist information from any referenced DTDs, or XMLSchema information it associates with the XML file. Try this experiment: Remove the DOCTYPE entry at the beginning of the file and see if content assist still works.
If you're interested in writing your own content assistants, you may want to start by reading the following:
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/editors_contentassist.htm
In a nutshell, like most things in Eclipse, this is a platform hook. When you press the button, it queries all the registered assistants (I'm simplifying here), and they provide suggestions based on the current element or even the current content.
When writing a source editor or viewer for a particular language or document type, it is common to provide at least some rudimentary content assistants.
Removed the DOCTYPE entry at the beginning of the file and im now able to see the commands while typing ctrl+space...
To add to Uri's answer, you can define your own editor for your own language with XText as long as you have a simple EBNF grammar language for your DSL (domain specific language).
You will have:
syntax coloring,
model navigation (F3, etc.),
code completion,
outline view, and
code templates.
Here is a solution you can work. Actually I was facing a same problem with struts.xml file. I was not able to produce tags by cntrl+space
what i did was...
go to Preferences...Java...Editor...Content Assist...Advanced
check all the check-boxes ON and press OK.
sometimes the problem persists due to some false alarming in eclipse. If it happens, just delete your xml file and create a new one in same location.
I hope it will help.
I had the same issue while using the struts.xml file.
I got fix when I tried below...
Go to “Preferences>Java>Editor>Content Assist>Advanced“. Make sure “Java Non Types Proposals” are ticked on both the places as shown in the image below then click Apply and OK button:-