Re: [Pnet-developers] Pnet (DotGNU) IDE

[Radek Polak]

Hi James,
I was playing some with Antlr - it looks really good. But I was also 
hacking whole week cscc and i found things that i needed. I learned how 
can i extract all type information either from source code or from 
compiled dll. I also found out how are local variable names and types 
attached to functions, so at this point i am ready to make quite good 
code completion processor. I am also ready to implement go-to-definition 
function - it looks quite easy.

I am now starting to write my own plugin for cscc. It will be simple 
text-mode IDE where you have command line and maybe simple text editor. 
You will be able to use command line like this:

> open sample.cs
ok

> add reference mscorlib.dll
ok

> goto line 19, pos 8
Console.

> show proposals
method Read
method ReadLine
method Write
method WriteLine
property Out
....

> find definition
mscorlib.dll

You will be able to attach to this simple-text-mode-IDE from external 
program - e.g. from Eclipse, Xacc or Emacs and then it should be easy to 
write e.g. code completion plugins. The would just send commands and 
display output. Support for Java and C should be quite easy later. I 
also hope this will be good test suite for cscc compiler.

When i have something nice done, i will make web page and let you know.

Radek


> Radek,
>  
> Have you looked at Antlr or Coco/R?
>  
> You should be able to get c# done with them.  Presumably you want a 
> java implementation?
>  
> Suggest you look here: http://www.scifac.ru.ac.za/resourcekit/
>  
> I have the book, and have hacked Coco (at least the Java version) so 
> it doesn't use globals - quite aneasy job.
>  
> James