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In my exploring, I did see some information on extending the Basic LPEX Editor to make a Simple LPEX Editor - something like that!

Seems there is an LPEX API one can use to make plugins that extend this - com.ibm.lpex.alef is the package, I think. Here's a tidbit from its JavaDoc -

"All text changes should be applied to LPEX (rather than to Eclipse's IDocument), using the LPEX API. This is imperative, given LPEX's unique text support of sequence numbers, record length, editing fields, DBCS support (SO/SI emulation, calculation of EBCDIC bytes on the remote), bidirectional support (logical / smart logical / syntax-smart logical, ligatures in EBCDIC on the remote, bidirectional marks), etc."

And in that package's intro is this description -

"Package com.ibm.lpex.alef
This package provides advanced line-oriented editing functions for Eclipse technology plug-ins."

So there it is, for what it's worth, right?

Later
Vern

On 2/19/2014 8:55 AM, Buck Calabro wrote:
On 2/18/2014 7:42 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

I've never heard of the Eclipse editor being LPEX - it might be, but I
don't know. I DO see in Preferences a separate section for "LPEX Editor"
- outside of "Remote Systems" - and there's also the "Remote Systems
LPEX Editor" inside of "Remote Systems".
Technical vocabulary has got completely out of control. Every platform
overloads a perfectly useful word with some new platform-specific
meaning. You can't say 'view' any more without some really specific
context. Imagine being a plugin developer trying to describe the view
you're extending in a model-view-controller model with a view toward
offering a scripting language a view of the internals via reflection.
Gibberish, feh.

And then I see in File Associations, "Basic LPEX Editor" and "Simple
LPEX Editor" and "Remote Systems LPEX Editor".

Oy! What a mess - it seems to me, at least at the end of this day when
I've been at this job now for a year! (I did slip that in!)
For end users, it's intended to be a black box. Click on a .cpp file
and the editor which has been extended for C++ will open. Click on a
.xml file and the editor which has been extended for XML will open.

If you're interested in the guts of extending an editor, check out
IEditorInput and IEditorPart. org.eclipse.ui
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fapi%2Forg%2Feclipse%2Fui%2Fpackage-summary.html

--buck


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