Hi Daniel, We have already spoken about that, but IMHO I think Freemarker should provide an LSP server. After that it will be easy to have
* good completion, hover, etc by using Eclipse lsp4e <https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.lsp4e> * have syntax coloration with textmate by using tm4e <https://github.com/eclipse/tm4e> And it could work for other editor which supports LSP like VSCode, WebStorm, etc I think you (the question is who?) should spend your time with LSP Freemarker Server. It's an hard work but it will work with a lot of Editor/IDE. Regard's Angelo 2018-03-07 20:23 GMT+01:00 Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com>: > Great idea. Love to help if I can > > On Mar 7, 2018 7:08 PM, "Daniel Dekany" <ddek...@apache.org> wrote: > > > The only Eclipse plugin in reasonable state for editing FreeMarker > > templates is "FreeMarker IDE", which is part of the JBoss Tools > > project. See the top entry at > > https://freemarker.apache.org/editors.html, and also > > https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-freemarker. > > > > However, RedHat has deprecated and now removed the "FreeMarker IDE" > > plugin from JBoss Tools and Devstudio. See: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49072160/why-is- > > freemarker-ide-in-eclipse-oxygen-jboss-tools-4-5-2-final-deprecated > > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-25736 > > > > So I think "FreeMarker IDE" should be brought over to the ASF, > > similarly as FreeMarker-Online was. Also the Eclipse update "site" > > should be hosted on ASF infrastructure. I have started a discussion to > > explore this possibility, and so far it seems it's fine on their side: > > > > http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jbosstools-dev/2018-March/subject.html > > > > The code is under EPL, but of course they should "contribute" the code > > the ASF where we can replace the license with ASL2, and rename the > > packages. > > > > Technically, "FreeMarker IDE" is independent of the rest of JBoss > > Tools, we only had to substitute org.jboss.tools:parent (as it's not > > in the Maven Central, it's not an acceptable dependency IMO). > > > > What do you think? Will the ASF be fine with bringing over yet another > > FreeMarker related project? Do you think it's good to do? > > > > My opinion is that the more control we have over such products, the > > easier it is to ensure that they remain maintained and available to > > the users. > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Daniel Dekany > > > > >
