Paul, if you are interested I could do the same thing that you have done
with Orion but with my CodeMirror Eclipse (it will be easy to do that), but
I'm not sure that E4 wish to use CodeMirror.

Tell me if you are interested.

Regards Angelo


2013/9/9 Angelo zerr <[email protected]>

> Hi Paul,
>
> I have tried to play with your CSS Editor but it doesn't works for me. The
> browser displays the content of the CSS but syntax coloring + completion
> doesn't work. I use Windows and my Browser is IE8.
>
> After debugging your plugin, it seems that Orion code doesn't support IE8
> (code uses JSON object, Array#forEach  which is not supported by IE8).
> For your information I have done the similiar thing with
> https://github.com/angelozerr/CodeMirror-Eclipse It embedds CodeMirror
> with SWT Browser and it works with RAP too
>
> You can find online demo at
> http://cmeclipse-2.opensagres.eu.cloudbees.net/codemirror You will find a
> CSS Editor which manages completion, folding, validation, matching bracket,
> close bracket, etc.
> It works with IE because CodeMirror supports IE. You can change the theme
> of the CSS editor with Windows/Preferences -> CSS/Theme
> CodeMirror Eclipse provides too a preference page to select your browser
> (Mozilla, WebKit).
>
>
> Here conclusion about my little experience with SWT Browser/ HTML editor :
>
> 1) the JS editor used should support IE (CodeMirror supports IE).
> 2) <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> should be
> included in the HTML page
> 3) avoid using IE, it's better (IE is slow). For instance, CodeMirror
> Eclipse provides a preference page to select Web Browser (Mozzila, WebKit).
> 4) editor JS must manage fullScreen mode. CodeMirror supports fullScreen
> so you have not the impressions that a browser is used.
>
> For CSS features, I think validation and completion (as you have managed)
> is important. After that if you can add some cool feature like folding,
> comments, format, matching bracket,ntext hover it should be better.
>
> Hope my post will help you.
>
> Regards Angelo
>
>
> 2013/9/8 Wim Jongman <[email protected]>
>
>> Never mind, I found the bug:
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=410841
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Wim Jongman <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> I have installed it. Do you have some but some instructions on how to
>>> use it? What is the bug number?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Wim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Paul Webster <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've released an Orion based CSS preference editor.  It can be
>>>> installed from http://download.eclipse.org/e4/updates/0.15-I-builds
>>>>
>>>> "CSS file editor > E4 Orion CSS Preference editor (Incubation)"
>>>>
>>>> It supports the swt-* properties for content assist.  It's a start, but
>>>> can definitely use some additions to the content assist/templates.  It's
>>>> based on the orion editor 3.0
>>>>
>>>> Please feel free to test it out and provide feedback.
>>>>
>>>> Later,
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul Webster
>>>> Hi floor.  Make me a sammich! - GIR
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