ExternalScript plugin ready to be merged (and some Quanta news)

[Niko Sams]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 22:58, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> Heyho :)
>
> I just more or less finished the ExternalScript plugin. What is it? Well, it's
> a quick'n'easy plugin ~(1000loc) to execute arbitrary external scripts or
> commands. Example:
Works great, I'll try to use my old Quanta3 scripts with that (have to
update Kde first at work)

Some issues:
- add placeholders that make it possible for the script to communicate
with kdevelop using
  dbus (PID would be enough i think)
  example usecase: open a document in kdevelop
- add placeholders for current project path / all project paths
- show the placeholders somewhere
- make output view optional (when executing a script that generates
code the opening
  output view is just a waste of space)
- show the toolview by default (?)

> Anyhow, please review, test and let me merge it:
>
> http://gitorious.org/+kdevelop-developers/kdevelop/devel-
> kdevplatform/commits/externalscript
I'd say merge it into master, my issues are just minor.

> General Quanta notes:
>
> - we have powerful snippets (better than ever I'm tempted to say, now that
> they are even completely javascript-able in kde 4.5)
>
> and yes, since yesterday snippets can have shortcuts assigned to them
awesome!
Are JavaScripted snippets somewhere documented or some examples?

> - proper multi language support in the DUChain
> I'll wait for David to finish his rewrite and try to improve the current
> situation a bit more. Imo this feature is crucial
yes, this is a must for quanta.

> - better $insert-web-language
> I think I'll spent more time on xml, css and php in the next days to make sure
> they all rock and are releasable. I'm also tempted to start on JavaScript
> support ;-)
JavaScript would be soo great - but very difficult. Don't waste too
much time on that :D

> - htm/xml outline like in Quanta 3
> imo depends on the "better multi lang support" part, otherwise I'm OK with
> writing a designated plugin for that...
or improve quickopen outline so that it displays the context tree -
that makes sense
for c++ too I think.


Niko