[antlr-interest] IntelliJ plug-in fails to save file

[Jean Bovet]

It is not a broken API issue but simply how to hook up ANTLRWorks to  
the "Save" action in IntelliJ? If anyone knows how to do that (or has  
a contact at Jetbrains), it would be great.

Regards,

Jean

On Jun 13, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Taras Tielkes wrote:

> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 23:43, Jean Bovet wrote:
>>> There is always a trade off between a complete and smooth  
>>> integration
>>> into IntelliJ and retaining as much work as possible: using the
>>> custom language would require much work that has been already spent
>>> in ANTLRWorks itself. But I would love to integrate ANTLRWorks more
>>> into IntelliJ.... if anybody knows how to interact with IntelliJ,
>>> please let me know.
>> I have no specific information to give you, but if you decide to  
>> embark on this, you might want to consider targeting IDEA 7.0,  
>> since apparently the JetBrains people do not place a high value on  
>> backward compatibility of the extension / plug-in API.
>> I know, e.g., that the Groovy plug-in they're producing works only  
>> on the early-access release of version 7.0.
>
> Can you give any specific examples where the API was broken in  
> recent years? In my experience *a lot* of effort is put in  
> maintaining compatibility. Jetbrains would certainly want to hear  
> it if something is broken.
>
> As for the new, in-development, Groovy plugin running only on 7.0:  
> perhaps the implementation uses new API features from IDEA 7.0?
>
> Rails 1.2 requires a fairly recent version of Ruby, does that mean  
> it has bad backward compatibility?
>
> -tt
>