Eclipse tm4e - TextMate support in Eclipse IDE

tm4e provides the capability to support :

• TextMate tokenizer with Java and integrates it with Eclipse IDE.
• VSCode Language Configuration to support matching bracket, auto close, on enter support.

tm4e is an official Eclipse.org project so it conforms to typical Eclipse.org requirements and guarantees.

Install

You can install tm4e with the update site http://download.eclipse.org/tm4e/snapshots/ which provides samples of syntax coloration with:

• GenericEditor for Language Server (C#, CSS, JSON)
• a TypeScript Editor.

Code

It provides:

• org.eclipse.tm4e.core provides the Java TextMate tokenizer. This project is a Java port of vscode-textmate written in TypeScript. This Java API can be used with any Java UI Toolkit (Swing, Eclipse, etc). See Core section for more information.

• org.eclipse.tm4e.ui provides the Eclipse org.eclipse.jface.text.presentation.IPresentationReconciler TMPresentationReconciler which is able to tokenize an editor content by using a given JSON, PList TextMate grammar and do syntax coloration. See UI section for more information.

• org.eclipse.tm4e.languageconfiguration provides the VSCode Language Configuration to support matching bracket, auto close, on enter support with a simple language-configuration.json.

Here a sample with TypeScript:

Who is using tm4e?

Here are some projects that use tm4e:

• Eclipse Corrosion Rust development tools in Eclipse IDE.
• Eclipse aCute C# edition in Eclipse IDE.
• Eclipse Wild Web Developer a simple and productive Web Development Tools in the Eclipse IDE.
• LiClipseText enables Eclipse to be used as a general-purpose text editor, providing support for several languages out of the box.
• typescript.java TypeScript IDE for Eclipse with JSDT & tsserver.
• EditorConfig for Eclipse EditorConfig for Eclipse with GenericEditor.
• Phaser Editor 2D An IDE for the creation of HTML5 games.
• Solargraph Ruby edition in Eclipse IDE.
• Dartboard Dart language support in the Eclipse IDE.

Get support and contribute

• License and community: tm4e is a community open-source project licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0.
• Support: You can ask questions, report bugs, and request features using GitHub issues.
• Git: This eclipse/tm4e repository is the reference repository to contribute to tm4e
• Build and CI: build can be performed with a simple mvn clean verify, continuous integration and deployment is performed by CI jobs at https://hudson.eclipse.org/tm4e
• Developers mailing-list: Contributors are also expected to subscribe the tm4e-dev mailing-list.
• Becoming a committer: as usual with Eclipse.org projects, anyone who's made significant contributions and who's upheld quality standards alongside good judgement and open-mindedness.