[antlr-interest] An editor GUI for Grammar

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Definitly interesting!

Is it available somewhere ? :)

/max

> Hi,
>
> that's basically what I'm working on at the moment. My editor is based  
> on Eclipse and you can attach several code processors, which consist of  
> an ANTLR grammar and some additional Java classes (I recently added  
> Groovy support, too).
> It currently supports incremental lexer execution, embedded languages  
> (like PHP in HTML), requested lexer changes (the PHP processor for  
> example looks for "<?" to activate itself), synchronized parser  
> execution in multiple threads and some other features to allow the  
> editor to understand as much of the input as possible, including the  
> relations between different languages.
>  From the GUI side of view it currently only supports syntax checking,  
> syntax highlighting and experimental indenting and auto completion, but  
> this is because I want to finish the core first.
> So the whole is still under heavy development, but I think you could be  
> interested. What do you think?
>
> Bye,
> Richard
>
>
>
> Pankaj Agarwal wrote:
>> Hi Martn,
>> Thanks for your response... Thats exactly I am looking for ... an  
>> editor infrastructure...because this should be used by an end user.
>> and I would hate to develop a editor hardcoding each rule ...in the GUI.
>>  -TIA
>>  On 8/16/06, *Martin Probst* <mail at martin-probst.com  
>> <mailto:mail at martin-probst.com>> wrote:
>>      Hi,
>>      I think someone once worked on providing something that would take
>>     a .g file and produce at least the major parts of an Eclipse editor
>>     component. No idea if there was any progress or something  
>> deliverable.
>>      But I think in most cases validation of input will simply be  
>> running
>>     it through the parser. The work I mentioned was mostly targeted at
>>     syntax highlighting and editor infrastructure like error reporting,
>>     iirc.
>>      Regards,
>>     Martin
>>      Am 16.08.2006 um 19:38 schrieb Pankaj Agarwal:
>>       > Hi ,
>>      > No, I am looking for a editor which can work my grammar rules in  
>> .g
>>      > file and provide validations for inputs to parser rather than
>>      > validating ANTLR grammar itself....? does that make sense ?
>>      > -TIA
>>      >
>>      > On 8/16/06, Dieter Frej < dieter_frej at gmx.net
>>     <mailto:dieter_frej at gmx.net>> wrote: are you
>>      > looking for something like antlrworks?
>>      >
>>      > - Didi
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > Pankaj Agarwal wrote:
>>      > > Hi,
>>      > > First accept my Congrats...for this excellent tool.
>>      > > I am new to ANTLR , however I find it ideal for my requirement  
>> of
>>      > > developing a Boolean query engine , I got enough idea on  
>> lexers and
>>      > > parsers, however this engine needs to be end to end...i.e.
>>      > > the end users should be able to specify these queries in a
>>      > GUI ...I was
>>      > > wondering whether there are some third party /open source or  
>> non
>>      > open
>>      > > source tools available which can help me generate a GUI from  
>> the
>>      > gramamr
>>      > > itself...since Grammar already has all the information for LHS  
>> ,
>>      > OP and
>>      > > RHS ..does this makes sense ?
>>      > >
>>      > > Any pointers are appreciated.
>>      > >
>>      > > -TIA
>>      >
>>      >
>>



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