ColorEditor

ColorEditor is a syntax color highlighting editor for Eclipse.

It uses JEdit's syntax highlighting mode files.

This is a beta release since a few things don't work. The biggest issue that doesn't currently work is supporting a partition that contains another partition(s). JEdit uses this "span within a span" idea in a lot of places but as far as I can tell it will take a good bit of work to support overlapping partitions in Eclipse.

The plugin currently supports highlighting for around 140 different file types.

Color editor is open source and free. See "license":download.html#license for more details.

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Supports 140+ different file types.

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Download

cbg.editor_1.2.6.jar for Eclipse 3.X
cbg.editor_1.1.zip for Eclipse 3.1.X
cbg.editor_0.2.8.zip for Eclipse 2.X

Install

Installation is simple.

Drop the jar into your Eclipse plugins directory. (No need to unzip if you're using > Eclise 3.1). For example c:/apps/eclipse/plugins.
Restart Eclipse, once Eclipse is restarted you should be able to use the colorEditor by selecting a file. If there is already a default editor for the file you would like to edit you can right mouse click and choose Open With | Syntax Coloring Editor.

Acknowledgements

ColorEditor relies heavily on code written by others. I would like to acknowledge and thank those involved directly and indirectly.

Eclipse - Eclipse is OTI/IBMs IDE / application framework tool.
jedt - jEdit has always been and continues to be a great programmer’s editor. Slava Pestov et al. created a super open source editor.
dom4j - dom4j is used for colorEditor’s XML support.

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.