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Write macros in Java
Submitted by leshij on Monday, 27 April, 2009 - 16:28
Hello all.
Having written a pair of longer-then-ten-lines macros, I really missing coding support features like code completion, integrated javadoc and so on that is available in modern Java IDEs. I think it would be nice to have an ability to write macros in Java with your favourite IDE (yes, I know, there is IDE support for many languages, including dynamic ones, but such a support is a number of magnitude weaker then one for Java).
I have dirtily implemented this features inline in jEdit source code.
Is anyone interested in this? If so, I can repack it as a plugin.
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I'm sorry, I'm not quite clea
by elberry on Mon, 27/04/2009 - 22:10
I'm sorry, I'm not quite clear as to what you've implemented? Could you explain it a little bit more?

Also, have you checked out the plugins list? Is there nothing that accomplishes what you want?

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Yes, I've lookup at plugin li
by leshij on Tue, 28/04/2009 - 06:09
Yes, I've lookup at plugin list, you can write macros in e. g. Jython (maybe also Groovy), but not in Java.
Also, I tried to find IDE/plugin that can provide autocompletion for beanshell, but anyway it cannot autocomplete methods of variables
declared outside macro (buffer, textArea, etc).

Actually, I have implemented org.gjt.sp.jedit.Macros.Handler so it loads compiled class files (instead of beanshell scripts like bundled with jEdit implementation does) from macro directory . I have setup a project in IDE so it compiles my macros to this directory.

So I can now write:
public class Messages_Stat implements Macros.ClassHandler.MacroClass {

public void run(Buffer buffer, View view, Macros.Macro macro, JEditTextArea textArea) {
/* my code goes here */
}

}

It is more verbose, but you don't need to keep javadoc opened all the time.
 
:) Nice. Very nifty. Sound
by elberry on Thu, 30/04/2009 - 22:01
Smiling Nice. Very nifty.

Sounds like a great plugin to me.

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