Re: Implement additional Hints for existing Language

On 7-10-2016 0:26, Alex Muthmann wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> there has already be a discussion with Geertjan and Petr regarding the 
> options to implement additional Hints for an existing language. I need 
> to add additional Hints for HTML files and the consensus was, that I 
> should use the CSL API to implement a Language and add a HintProvider.
>
> I did some basic tests

Put your code on GitHub and send a link to it here so we can all see the 
code rather than text.

Gj

> but ran into the following situation:
> As soon as I register a new Language XYZ which uses the mimeType 
> text/html, the build-in HTML Language does not work anymore (no hints, 
> no code-completion etc). I'd expect that all languages registered on a 
> mimeType are used and not only one of those.
>
> I was not able to find this use-case in the netbeans source-code and 
> I'm currently lost :(
> Could somebody probably provide an example of a working extension of 
> an existing language or an alternative to the implementation of a 
> complete new language?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Alex Muthmann