Syntax Coloring in Eclipse

PixelMuncher

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Jan 21, 2011, 7:37:21 AM1/21/11

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I switched from jEdit to Eclipse, which is proving a good move.
Is there a way to color Maya commands?
Thanks.

Matt Estela

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Jan 22, 2011, 4:40:09 PM1/22/11

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Last time I looked defining syntax files for eclipse was way more complex than I expected. Just searched again, someone on stack overflow suggested this plugin to help get things setup:

http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/

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Christian Åkesson

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Jan 23, 2011, 2:11:38 AM1/23/11

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This may help out:

http://christianakesson.com/ArtSite/Blog/Entries/2010/11/13_Making_Eclipse_Soar.html

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sh...@pyrokinesis.co.nz

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Jan 23, 2011, 2:17:40 AM1/23/11

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That plugin is probably not what you want. I have found a few others as
well but they all force you out of pydev, which for me is not desired.
Because I want to use pydev I have started a feature request ticket via
the pydev site.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3119380&group_id=85796&atid=577332#

Feel free to add to the ticket or create your own, it would be awesome if
pydev started supporting commands.

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PixelMuncher

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Jan 23, 2011, 11:31:18 PM1/23/11

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I've already followed the instructions in "Making Eclipse
Soar" (although I didn't add Perforce nor the PyQT stuff).
Xtext looks too complicated.
I also found the Colorer-take5 library at http://colorer.sourceforge.net/.
I contacted Igor Russkih, the author, who told me it could be used to
accomplish this task, but I'm not a "real" programmer, so there's no
way I could pull it off in a reasonable amount of time. His reply
was:

"Sure you can do this.
EclipseColorer distribution contains packed syntax description - you
can extract and review them.
You need net.sf.colorer_0.9.1/colorer/hrc/common.jar:base/python.hrc
As a most simple modification, there you'll find a listing of keywords
like <word name="ImportError"/>
Adding your own keywords (and then updating the common.jar file) will
eventually give you these keywords highlighting in python.
For more info, you may refer hrc-reference on colorer's site."

Maybe it would be worthwhile for one of you guys in a studio to look
into this?