velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText

[Christopher Townson <ch...@gmail.com>]

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usual plugin of choice) but they're beginning to look a bit outdated next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

[Guillaume Polet <gu...@gmail.com>]

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 usual plugin of choice) but they're beginning to look a bit outdated 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
>>
>
>
>
>
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Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText

["Mark Fenbers (NOAA Federal)" <ma...@noaa.gov>]

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
>

Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText

[Mike Kienenberger <mk...@gmail.com>]

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
<ch...@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

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Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText

[David Nugent <de...@gmail.com>]

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



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Re: velocity eclipse plugins, VTL grammar, XText

[Nathan Bubna <nb...@gmail.com>]

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.townson@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
>