Re: [vimplugin-devel] Vim completion using keywords from Eclipse

[David T. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi Dave,

Code completion isn't a problem I have tried to tackle yet so I'm not  
that familiar with it. However my understanding is that Eclipse  
generates the information it needs for code completion dynamically,  
so there isn't really anywhere this information is stored such as it  
is in Vim which just uses simple static files. Eclipse for most the  
languages it supports has a deep understanding of the language and  
parses it into an AST, for Java you can see the classes used to  
represent the Java code here: org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.

I think from memory from working with XML in Eclipse a fair while  
ago, Eclipse knows how to parse a DTD/Schema. A company I worked for  
had some custom XML formats but after I wrote a Schema for it,  
Eclipse figured out the code completion. So I would suggest you just  
look at the DTD/Schema for MXML and either write the vim completion  
file by hand using the information or you can try to use this script  
below which translates from a DTD to a Vim omni-completion file.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1462

I tried it in the parse and I think it works Ok but has some  
significant bugs but things might have improved or my memory wrong. I  
had a quick look around on the internet for the DTD or Schema for  
MXML but wasn't able to find anything.

Cheers,
David

On 11/12/2008, at 1:48 AM, David Fishburn wrote:

>
> I posted this on the Vim list with no response.
> Since many of you have a lot more familiarity with Eclipse, perhaps  
> you have
> some suggestions for me.
> ...
>
> I am hoping someone on this list has a passing familiarity with  
> Eclipse.
>
> Eclipse knows how to complete MXML files for Adobe Flex.
> I have put everything else into Vim to support Flex development but
> now I want to tackle the code completion portion.
>
> Vim already has XML / HTML completion and Mikolaj made it generic
> enough so that I can use the same gear for MXML.
>
> What I am lacking is of course all the keywords which are available
> for each of the different MXML tags.  Eclipse already knows how to do
> this, so it has the required information.
>
> Does anyone know how or at least which files contain all that
> information so that I can extract it and build what I need for Vim?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
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