I've been using netbeans for a couple of years now, mainly on PHP / CakePHP projects.
Recently I've started using Coldfusion, which isn't directly supported. I've found, however, that if I use PHP as a project type, I can load the files and the HTML Renderer does an admirable job with the Coldfusion tags.
I want to make it better and help the renderer to understand some of the tags and, hopefully, thereby improve code indentation and syntax highlighting.
My question, then, is how can I access the HTML dictionary to extend the vocabulary?
NB: This isn't a 'which IDE' question so don't recommend them. I want to know if and how I can achieve this in NetBeans and only Netbeans.
Here are a few ideas. If you render it in HTML, you could probably add a custom name space to the HTML. If setup correctly it can help NetBeans realize that the tags are valid and shouldn't show as an error. It might not give you all the preview and WYSIWYG functionality, but it may be better than what you are getting now. I have only done this on other platforms, but I'm pretty sure NetBeans supports it.
Also I think that NetBeans will let you add CustomTags doing something like this:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/CustomTagActions
Just to note, in terms of ColdFusion the other alternatives are NotePad++ with the CF plugin and IntelliJ now supports CF.
I really like Eclipse - the number of plugins available (SVN, Javascript, CSS, CodCollab, Flashbuilder etc.) is what makes it indispensable IMHO.
I am, however, looking forward to the new version of CFBuilder.
This answer on the same/similar question suggests that there is nothing out there for ColdFusion on netbeans : NetBeans as an editor for ColdFusion scripts?
If you want to build your own ColdFusion plugin for netbeans you need to look at plugin development; http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/60/nbm-google.html You could use the Dictionary project from cfeclipse as a basis for your plugin. See this Google Group thread for a bit more information
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I use Eclipse for my day-to-day development in ColdFusion, using the CFEclipse plugin. Since a lot of development now starts with Bootstrap, I'd like to use insight (Proposals I think they're called in Eclipse) in the interface so I don't have to type in the same classes all the time. Any idea where to start? I looked into the dictionary XML files for the CFEclipse plugin, but that seems like overkill. I just want to make a list of classnames that the editor can append from when I'm coding.
Thanks.
Long time reader, first time asking a question.
Most of my development work has been in .NET using Visual Studio. Recently I took over maintenance of a website built on PHP and downloaded NetBeans as an IDE.
NetBeans has a very nice CSS property wizard for HTML projects that highlights the CSS rules in use for a particular element and lets you edit the rules directly. However, this doesn't appear to be available for PHP projects, even for pure HTML files within the project. Is that correct, or am I just missing some configuration? I can't seem to find any confirmation either way in the documentation or forums. (It would be unfortunate if it didn't work... it's a really useful feature.)
Thanks,
Terry
If you are referring to the visual CSS editing support that works with Google Chrome and the WebKit browser embedded in NetBeans, then this feature will be available for PHP projects in the upcoming NetBeans 7.4 release. See also this blog post: https://blogs.oracle.com/netbeanswebclient/entry/html5_development_with_java_ee
Hope this helps,
Petr
I'm learning to use a new hosted e-commerce system at work which uses a proprietary markup/scripting language for its page templates. They are similar to JSP pages (although the server tags don't have a prefix, i.e. there is no "xsp:") and use ${expressions} similar to Expression Language. We are transitioning from a .Net system, so all of my fellow devs are very used to having thorough IntelliSense available in our editors.
So, my question is whether it is possible to make these custom tags available in content assist, and whether it is worth the hassle if there is any. (I'm aware the latter is subjective - I'm a reasonable guy and open to opinions.)
FYI, I'm more concerned with auto-completion of tags, but expressions would be great as well depending on how much work is involved. We are using eclipse for Java EE, Juno (core IDE v4.2.1) with WTP... Sorry I'm not really sure how or what to share as far as versions and components go! Let me know if any additional info would help.
Thanks in advance.
A decidedly non-hassle-free answer would be to create an Eclipse plug-in to support your proprietary template language. One place to start might be Veloeclipse, a HTML/XML/JSP/Velocity Editor for Eclipse, which claims to have the following features which you may find interesting:
Smart indentation of velocity directives (on pressing return or when using tabs)
Code folding
Code Formatting
Smart indentation of html tags (on pressing return or when using tabs)
Syntax highlighting for both html and velocity
Autocompletion and Content assist for tags, directives and references (Ctrl + space in html attribute values or when opening or closing tags)
Sources here: http://code.google.com/p/veloeclipse/source/checkout
I just love AngularJs. I write all my projects in netbeans and I would like to stick with netbeans. I searched over the net for a plugin that supports AngularJs in netbeans, with no luck.
There is a plugin, but it seems not to work, or I can not get it to work.
I am not looking for a full fledged plugin, if I could get rid of the warnings in the editor I would be satisfied.
My questions:
Does anyone know a working plugin for netbeans that supports AngularJs?
If not, a link to instructions how to make netbeans understand a custom attribute would also help/
you can prefix them with data- or x- ...
Is there some kind of Checkstyle plug-in for Eclipse available for ColdFusion.
There aren't really any coding specifications for ColdFusion. Sean Corfield wrote one for Macromedia's internal development departments that some folks use, but there really isn't a set of coding conventions and rules that the community adheres to. Thus, there is no plugin to test that your code follows those rules.
That said, if you have standards that you prefer/enforce in your company or team, then you can use the code formatter in ColdFusion Builder 2 (still in public beta, at this time) to quickly check/update source files.
You set the formatting guidelines in the Eclipse preferences, and then you can run the formatter from the menu: Edit > Format (Keyboard shortcut: cmd/control + shift + F)
I search around a bit for cf specific Checkstyle tool, no luck. I think since CF is a tagging language as much as a scripting language, it lags behind in tools like this. You could check out the coldfusion specific eclipse plugin, it may have some of its own type checkstyle functionality.
http://cfeclipse.org/
Hoping this is still relevant to someone...
Long time ago, I've tried an approach using checkstyle regexp tags.
I wrote a blog post, check if there is any useful hint:
http://rcastagno.blogspot.it/2009/09/checkstyle-50-regexps-and-eclipse.html
There is a static code checker, written in ColdFusion, FOR ColdFusion. see https://github.com/wellercs/CodeChecker. There is also a linter that can plug in to Eclipse or ColdFusion Builder, called CFLint. See https://github.com/cflint/CFLint for that tool.
So CodeChecker is a stand-alone application and CFLint may be used, as I remember, stand-alone or as a plug-in to a number of IDEs.
You can easily add rules and guides to CodeChecker, I haven't tried with CFLint.