[antlr-interest] An editor GUI for Grammar

[Richard Musiol]

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
>      >
>      >
> 
>