For the love of humanity, syntax highlighting

[dustContributor]

Hi! I'll just let you know, Xtend is great. It does exactly the couple of things that I really want from a JVM language: No semicolons, type inference, compact syntax without redundant characters, leaves primitives alone, type inference, seamless java interop, did I said type inference? Its awesome. And it works really really well, I'd thought that automatic Java transpiling would be an issue but it works great!

But there is one caveat... This annoys me a lot, look:

Leaving aesthetic color choices aside, do you see the difference? With Java syntax highlighter I can configure everything, colors for classes, enums, interfaces, local variables, fields, parameters, method calls, static method calls, abstract method calls, constructors, keywords, if you can name it, you can put a specific color on it.

I'd love if I could have that level of customization in Xtend's editor. Otherwise Xtend code looks like a seamless blob of text :(

PD: Incidentally, it would be nice to have instance method references so I could do filter(matcher::matches).

[Efftinge, Sven]

Ok that's not too hard to improve on. 

Could you file an enhancement for it, in our bugtracker? enter_bug

That way you'll also get notifications, when someone comments or works on it.

Cheers,

Sven

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[dustContributor]

Sweet. I'll do it, but it would be much, much nicer if you could also enable GitHub issues in your repository. Having yet an another account just for submitting a bug is cumbersome.

Done: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=482135

And thank you for your time.

[lum...@gmail.com]

This request has been lying around for a while now: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=392705 (2012-10).
As there was no response on this from the team I've actually tried looking into the codebase to implement it myself (and remember asking about where to be within the codebase on this forum), but to no avail..

I really hope there will be progress on this soon, as Sven indicated it shouldn't take too much time.

[dustContributor]

Ah I see. Well, it would be nice if I could merge my bug into that one. 

[Efftinge, Sven]

I marked it as a duplicate, which is kind of a merge :-)

[lum...@gmail.com]

Could one of the contributors maybe point me in the right direction with regards to which classes are currently in charge of this?

[dustContributor]

Yeah that'd be nice. I tried looking for it but I didn't found it.

[lum...@gmail.com]

Is there any update on this yet? Or things we could look into?

[Sven Efftinge (sven@efftinge.de)]

Hi Lumenon,

thanks for pinging again. So if you want to have a look, these are the classes that are involved.

*org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.ide.highlighting.XbaseHighlightingCalculator*

Contains coloring code for expressions. I.e. see 

computeFeatureCallHighlighting(XAbstractFeatureCall, IHighlightedPositionAcceptor) for how member accesses get colored differently, depending on whether they are static, extensions, methods or fields.

On this level we apply coloring IDs (string constants, defined in XbaseHighlightingStyles). The corresponding font styles need to be defined on a platform specific level. For Eclipse this is XbaseHighlightingConfiguration.

If you want to color other things than expressions, than you need to look into the corresponding subclasses starting with 'Xtend' suffix.

You can add test cases to org.eclipse.xtend.ide.tests.highlighting.XtendHighlightingCalculatorTest.

hth,

Sven

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[GJ Roelofs (CodePoKE)]

Thank you for the support, and the effort spent in Xtend. (!)

I'll look into this over the week and see if I can scrounge some spare time to address the matter.

Cheers,

GJ

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