EditBox is the Eclipse plugin for source code background highlighting. While most of plugins highlight the syntax of the source code, EditBox highlights the selected block of the code by changing its background color and drawing border around it.

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Integrated Development Environments (IDE), User Interface (UI), Source Code Management

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Eclipse Public License

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  • oliver4 Posted 2016-10-07
    Interesting Idea!Programs are all made up of "code blocks".
  • monkeycanfly Posted 2014-09-11
    I opened an sourceforge account to leave this message: Good Job, Thanks!
  • wock Posted 2014-01-28
    Great project... I have been waiting years for something like this!!
  • andreibranescu Posted 2012-07-06
    Very good. Really easy to follow the code with this. Should be available as an option in every editor.
  • rbondi Posted 2011-08-23
    I wish this was available for other editors. Very nice and easy to turn on and off as needed. Nice innovation.
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Additional Project Details

Intended Audience

Developers

User Interface

Java SWT

Programming Language

Java

Related Categories

Java Integrated Development Environments (IDE), Java User Interface (UI) Software, Java Source Code Management Software

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2009-10-26
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