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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:47:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: [scala-ide-user] Improvement Request on Highlighting Implicit Conversions
From: "Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein)" <hossein.ha...@gmail.com>
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I have absolutely no experience in Eclipse plugin development. But,
this one, I'm sure will be useful to my research too. (I'm a
programming languages guy after all. :p) So, I'm up for it! :) But
will need a lot of startup guidance...

On 27 August 2012 10:18, iulian dragos <jagua...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Rafael de F. Ferreira
> <raf...@rafaelferreira.net> wrote:
>>
>> This discussion reminded me of a feature request I've been meaning to
>> make for a while. Highlighting implicits and showing inferred
>> semicolons is useful but perhaps already too cluttering, and I think
>> Scala tooling would benefit from more desugaring info. I'd love to see
>> a "Code Inspection" panel that mirrored a section of the currently
>> focused source code (perhaps visually similar to the JDT's Declaration
>> View) with toggles to show synthesized code such as  "implicits
>> expansion", "inferred semicolons", "inferred member types",
>> "for-comprehension desugaring", "extractor desugaring", etc.
>>
>> It's possible to show all that information on the existing editor
>> given the appropriate highlights and tooltips, but having it all
>> available on a separate pane just a glance away would be a net win
>> IMO. What do you guys think?
>
>
> This is indeed something very useful, especially when developing the IDE
> itself. I've been meaning to do a 'dev support plugin' for a while, with =
the
> intention that a separate view shows you information about the current
> selection:
>
> - AST nodes
> - position information (many times when semantic actions don't work as
> expected, it's the position information that is skewed or otherwise
> inaccurate)
> - symbol and type
> - pretty-printed de-sugared trees (this would include expanded macros in
> 2.10)
>
> It would be a fun project, but I can't fit it in the current milestone
> plans, and we're already late. I'd be motivated to kick it off if someone
> could lend me a hand.
>
> cheers,
> iulian
>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rafael de F. Ferreira.
>> http://www.rafaelferreira.net/
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Damian H <damianhe...@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>> > thanks for pointing that out Miles, the underlining has been making my
>> > eyes
>> > hurt!
>> >
>> > On Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:56:24 UTC+1, Miles Sabin wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Miles Sabin <mi...@milessabin.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > In the light of experience I'd say that underlining doesn't work ve=
ry
>> >> > well at all as a highlighting mechanism for implicits. I find the
>> >> > markers in the margin a lot more useful and I'd be happy to turn th=
e
>> >> > underlining off completely so long as the markers remained.
>> >>
>> >> Ahem ... well, I just went and took another look, and what I want is
>> >> already possible.
>> >>
>> >> It's in preferences, under,
>> >>
>> >>   General =3D> Editors =3D> Text Editors =3D> Annotations =3D> Scala =
Implicit
>> >>
>> >> and then deselect the "Text as" option. The underlining goes, but the
>> >> markers are still present :-)
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Miles
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Miles Sabin
>> >> tel: +44 7813 944 528
>> >> skype: milessabin
>> >> gtalk: mi...@milessabin.com
>> >> g+: http://www.milessabin.com
>> >> http://twitter.com/milessabin
>
>
>
>
> --
> =AB Je d=E9teste la montagne, =E7a cache le paysage =BB
> Alphonse Allais



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