Posted by Jeremie Bresson on
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/AsciiDoc-support-in-Eclipse-tp3239p3244.html

Before anyone gets overexited, I want to quote myself (see Eclipse Bug 418563):

Keep in mind that the current WikiText model is not enough to express all what you can express with asciidoc. This will be a problem. A possibility is to implement the subset of asciidoc corresponding to what Wikitext can handle.

The WikiText engine is based on regex, and I am not sure if it is possible to exchange this parser/engine. The types of blocs handled by WikiText are also limited. I am also not sure how an Asciidoc macro can be integrated in the WikiText Framework.

I think that starting as a Language in the WikiText framework is a good approach to start, but not a solution on the long time.

I dream of an Eclipse Editor capable of:
• Display inline warning, errors…
• Being able to jump (CTRL Click or F3) to another file (include directive and or xref)
• CTRL Shift G to know where an adoc file is used.
• I would also like to have buttons or shortcuts for some action (setting the selected text to bold -> this should box the selected text between "*")

This will probably be the result of a specialized eclipse editor…

I agree with mojavelinux: "Exciting times!" & "it's a long road"