Editor library

These packages implement an editor with syntax highlighting, parenthesis matching, automatic indentation, and line numbers.

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Description

Packages

com.cburch.editor	Contains the most useful library classes for incorporating a programmer's editor (the Editor class) into a larger program.
com.cburch.editor.demo	This set of classes implements a minimal programmer's text editor, incorporating all of the features found in the com.cburch.editor package.
com.cburch.editor.scanners	Contains classes implementing the Scanner interface to allow support for different file types.
com.cburch.editor.tokens	Contains Tokenizer and related classes for tracking the sequence of tokens in a document.
com.cburch.editor.util	Contains general-purpose classes used by other packages in the editor class.

These packages implement an editor with syntax highlighting, parenthesis matching, automatic indentation, and line numbers. It is a programmer's editor in three ways.

• The actual application is a passable editor for programming, including most of the important features. But really, that's not the point.

• The classes serve as a useful library for programs that need a text editor as an important component. Configuring it to work with other languages requires little more than writing a new file for JFlex describing the tokens in that language with regular expressions.

• The code itself is open and thoroughly documented, usefully illustrating how to implement the features.

The code depends fairly heavily on Java 1.5, particularly its generics.

Version:

0.1.1 2005-07-05

Author:

Carl Burch