I would, but I miss my Amiga with ARexx :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARexx
Or AppleScript on macOS: “tell application ‘NetBeans’ open project ‘HelloWorld’” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript Scriptable applications can be very powerful. I’m not sure REST is the right mechanism, but the idea is sound. Scott > On Jan 14, 2021, at 8:22 PM, Mark A. Flacy <mfl...@verizon.net.invalid> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I must ask if there are other IDEs which do have such APIs enabled by > default. > I wouldn't want something like that to be available (by default) on *any* IDE > that I use. > > -- > Mark A. Flacy > mfl...@verizon.net > >> On Thursday, January 14, 2021 5:30:21 PM CST Thomas Wolf wrote: >> Hi, >> This might be a dumb question: does Netbeans have an external API (e.g. >> REST) that would allow a remote program to direct Netbeans to open a file >> at a given line number? I have a program that does some analysis on >> application source code and then needs to let the user edit some specific >> source files using whatever their favorite IDE. If possible, I’d like to >> avoid writing my app as a plugin for each IDE. >> >> I’m not sure if this is actually the right mailing list to ask this >> question. Feel free to point me to another if it’s not. >> >> Thanks, >> Tom > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >
