Re: JetBrains / IntelliJ IDEA v8 to Support FreeMarker!

Jonathan Revusky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> JetBrains recently announced the availability of the first EAP (early 
> access program) release of version 8.0 of IDEA (code name Diana). Among 
> the new capabilities are built-in support for FreeMarker template 
> editing.
> 
> <http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Diana+First+EAP+Release+Notes#DianaFirstEAPReleaseNotes-FreeMarkerSupport>
> 
> Hurrah!

That's great news! Thanks for that. I guess that means that there is 
basically some kind of support for FreeMarker (even if it's in its green 
beginnings in all of the "big three", which I would think are Eclipse, 
IntelliJ and Netbeans.

> 
> 
> (Velocity support is coming "later.")

There is the famous expression in American politics, a congressional 
district, say, that is "yaller dog" democrat. IOW, if a yellow dog was 
presented as the candidate for the democratic party, it would win 
election by a landslide in that area.

Though actually, I seem to vaguely recall cases where a candidate died 
shortly before an election and it was too late to take his name off the 
ballot and he won. Being unable to defeat a dead opponent would surely 
not make the other candidate feel good.

Our "competition" with Velocity has basically been like that for years.

In other matters, Randall, I saw you had posted something on the 
ANTLR-interest list recently. It was as a result of googling stuff about 
how to do lexical states with ANTLR. I've been taking a run (another 
one) at ANTLR recently and... OMG... I'm on the verge of giving up, man, 
it's terrible. So difficult...

Did you ever figure out how do simulate lexical states? Supposedly you 
use semantic predicates, which according to TP, is much more powerful 
than lexical states, but I can't get it to work. Did you ever figure it out?

JR




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> 
> Randall Schulz
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