Re: Eclipse scripting

Dave Boettcher wrote:

Ok Buck, what can you do with scripts? Are they perhaps something like Rexx?

I sure hope so! So far, I haven't done too much with it but the example has a script that stuffs the current date into an editor selection. That's very promising to me because it indicates that I can manipulate text inside the editor, which I used to do for things like generating skeleton code from external DDS.

With the demise of ReXX, I was forced into writing a plug-in, which is way too much like work. With this Javascript scripting it'll be much more like ReXX. Edit, save, test. No compiles, no deploys, no restarting the workbench, blech. Bless the plug-in developers who go through that, but I'm just trying to hack quickie tools together.

Lately, I want not only regular expressions in my searches, I want them in my replacements, too. For instance, I have a report in RPG that uses level breaks. I need to add two levels. I'd really like a macro/function/script that lets me select a block of text, copy it, search all the L1 field names and indicators and replace them with L2. For as many times as I want (i.e. L3, L4 and so on.) With my own script, I can ignore the selection bit and let the script do all the work, including ignoring the I specs. Oh the dreams...
--buck