In my current project, I am trying to link the DSL specification written in xtext and code generator written in StringTemplate. for instance, the syntax of my DSL specification is as follows. I am...

I am developing an xtext plug-in project for an eclipse application for my Bachelor thesis. I want to do the 'Generate Xtext Artifacts' at runtime with an ant script executing the Mwe2Launcher cla...

In our Eclipse RCP application (using Eclipse 3.7) I had overridden WorkbenchWindowAdvisor.postWindowCreate() method, to hide the unwanted Coolbar/Toolbar items like File, Run etc. menus and Run La...

I would like to add syntax highlighting for .less for Aptana Studio 3. I found XText but it only seems to work with Eclipse. Apatana doesn't seem to give too many leads into how to do this on their...

I need a variable that represents an interface. I was wondering if there is a "standard" name for such a variable, like for example the clazz for a Class variable. I was thinking of naming it aInte...

I'm writing an Eclipse/Xtext plugin for CoffeeScript, and I realized I'll probably need to write a lexer for it by hand. CoffeeScript parser also uses a hand-written lexer to handle indentation and...

I heard that Xtext ultimately uses ANTLR but their grammar specification files have somewhat different formats. So what's the relationship between the two?

Basically I need to implement a full XText editor in an IViewPart. I have most of it working based on the XText Forms Integration project. Unfortunately, this is not a full implementation on an XTe...

I'm working on a project in which we are producing a language which compiles to java. The framework we are using (xtext) makes prolific use of boxing in its generated code. Specifically, if you hav...

I want to convert a very simple Antlr grammar to Xtext, so no syntactic predicates, no fancy features of Antlr not provided by Xtext. Consider this grammar grammar simple; // Antlr3 foo: number+;...

I am writing an Eclipse plugin using Xtext 2. I have provided my own preferences by writing my own RootPreferencePage class: package org.grammaticalframework.eclipse.ui.editor.preferences; import ...

I'm writing an XText editor, and doing some semantic highlighting. Part of the language I'm parsing refers to files, which should exist in the project. I'd like to highlight based on whether these ...

Both of those frameworks deal with meta-model: XText (Eclipse) MPS (JetBrain) Do you have example of practical applications based on meta-model transformation with those tools?

I just came across very nice tool Xtext to create DSL as well as IDE for editing. I did some search on the web and found people saying it does not provide all the features of ANTLR. I am using ANTL...

How is operator precedence implemented in ANTLR? I'm using the XText/Antlr package at the moment. Edit: I did what sepp2k suggested, and operator precedence works now, but stuff like 3 +* also...

I've been working on an Xtext-based Eclipse plugin for a language we use in-house. This language might have a statement of the form: run : /some/file/path/foo.txt ... and ultimately I want to pr...

I'm new to both Xtext and ANTLR. I need to translate an ANTLR (.g) grammar into an XTEXT (.xtext) grammar. In the ANTLR grammar there are syntactic predicates which are not supported by Xtext. Is...

I have used Eclipse Xtext in several projects. I loved the ease of defining a grammar over an Ecore (meta)model and letting everything generated for you including awesome Eclipse plugin editor, but...

I'm currently developing a general-purpose agent-based programming language (its syntaxt will be somewhat inspired by Java, and we are also using object in this language). Since the beginning of t...