Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Parser generator to use in a jEdit plugin

[Lucas D. <ld...@in...>]

jlex and cup are ports of lex and yacc to java, if I remember correctly.
A quick google scan gives me:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/
which is what remember using for a compilers course.

jlex:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/JLex/

cup:
http://www2.cs.tum.edu/projects/cup/

I've done a bit of this kind of thing, so feel free to ask me questions.

I've been wanted a fancier way to specify syntax highlighting,
indentation etc for jEdit - I know a good deal about parsers, but not so
much about the jEdit API's - so I'd also welcome some discussion on this.

best,
lucas

Shlomy Reinstein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I intend to write a plugin that will provide some C++ features that
> are normally available in an IDE such as automatic code completion and
> jumping to tags according to context. Such work has been done in the
> great open source C++ IDE named CodeLite, and I got the author's
> permission to port his work to jEdit (as long as I maintain the
> license).
> His work is based on something similar to CtagsInterface, which is
> accompanied by custom-made local context parsers, which retrieve
> information that is not provided by Ctags like local variables and
> their types. These parsers are written in yacc/lex, and to use them in
> jEdit I am looking for a good, quick parser generator that outputs
> Java code.
> 
> I have absolutely no experience with this in Java. Can anyone
> recommend a parser generator that suits jEdit? There are 4 different
> parsers, each is very small and meant to solve a specific context
> derivation task (and runs on a relatively small chunk of text). I
> found ANTLR to be nice, especially due to the specialized IDE -
> AntlrWorks, but I don't know how it compares to others like javacc in
> terms of simplicity, performance and extensibility.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shlomy
> 
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