bnd source editor not as nice as old bnd editor about bndtools HOT 9 CLOSED

I miss it :-)

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Some progress towards this. I've added the bndtools.editor.completion package which lifts the functionality from bnd.plugin.editors.BndSourceViewerConfiguration.

Two outstanding problems that need resolving before this is completed.

Firstly I've embedded aQute.bnd.help.Syntax in this package as it is not yet exported from bndlib.

Secondly bndtools.editor.completion.BndScanner has a comment:

// TODO need to move these constants to Constants to avoid the dependency on aQute.bnd.make.component which drags in half the universe
//addWords(ServiceComponent.componentDirectives, bsvc.T_COMPONENT);

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Very nice progress, but the completion is not quite working the way I would like. It does not take account of the prefix already typed. For example the user types the following:

Expo

And then hits Ctrl-Space. We should only show the completions matching that prefix (i.e. Export-Package and Export-Service). If only one possible completion matches the prefix then we can insert it straight away without needing to show a list of proposals.

I have some example code from another project that does this.

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BTW we should raise the other issues (i.e. exporting aQute.bnd.help and moving the ServiceComponent constants) as bugs against bnd.

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Agreed about the prefix string support, I've pushed a patch that supports that. I'll raise issues on bnd shortly...

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Also just spotted I hadn't implemented the case where there is only one possible solution, further patch supplied.

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Something else I noticed. The Eclipse standard .properties file editor colours property names differently from property values. I found this really useful with lines joined together by blackslashes, because if I forgot the backslash then the next line is the wrong colour. Can we do the same?

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I've raised the two bnd issues here:

https://github.com/bnd/bnd/issues/87
https://github.com/bnd/bnd/issues/88

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