[jira] [Commented] (NETBEANS-7) Provide basic editor features (syntax highlighting, braces matching, completion, etc) for more file types

["Christian Lenz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christian Lenz commented on NETBEANS-7:
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This ticket is kind of related to this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-177.

I suggested that NetBeans should first interact as an editor with common feature set for a lot of languages like syntax highlighting, braces matching, errors, etc. It should not activate the modules automatically for full feature set, it should give you the choice to enable it or not. If not you have a language which is supported only for syntax highlighting, maybe code completion, errors, indentation and braces matching. This will load the IDE much much faster (I guess). It is the ame behaviour as for Visual Studio Code. So NBS is part of NetBeans, it is already there, it is working, but not perfect, so maybe it should be better to use a more updated one than NBS/Schliemann. To use the language files from Visual Studio Code or UltraEdit or Sublime.

> Provide basic editor features (syntax highlighting, braces matching, completion, etc) for more file types
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>
>                 Key: NETBEANS-7
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-7
>             Project: NetBeans
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ide - UI
>            Reporter: Emilian Bold
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> We could provide basic editor features (syntax highlighting, braces matching, completion, etc) for more languages based on the existing corpus of definitions from other editors/IDEs. See
> * http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php?title=User_Defined_Language_Files
> * http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/extensibility/syntaxdefs.html
> * https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/language-support
> * http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/extras/wordfiles.html#wordfiles
> The basic editor features would usually get replaced once more proper plugins are installed for a given language.
> We could even introduce a mechanism to promote to users the full plugins (from the Plugin Portal, etc) once they start editing given file types.



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