The Afae editor plugin really only exists to satisfy my own needs so I am not that concerned with how many people use it. But, in the immortal words of Will Turner a craftsman is always pleased to hear his work is appreciated.
I did a quick look around today to see if Afae seems to be at all interesting to people, and it seems like it is at least slightly interesting.
The editor part of Afae has been downloaded 3502 times - that doesn’t mean that that many people use it though. Those are stats on the nightly downloads so there are probably quite a few repeat offenders in there. But it’s safe to say there are at least 6 people are using Afae :).
The uptake of the other plugins are still respectable, but far smaller:
The blogger plugin is the newest plugin, but it seems slow on the uptake.
On Eclipse Plugin Central Afae is still listed on the 3 month Top Rated list ( to my surprise, slightly beating out CFEclipse in that category :-o ):
If you are one of those six people using Afae, I am working towards doing a 1.0 release (mostly because I need to branch the code to add code folding and some other deeply rooted changes). Right now, these are the only items before 1.0. If you have any bugs or suggestions for 1.0 please let me know (new features, if you want to suggest some, will go into 2.0 unless there is a must have).
By the way, I did a quick test with Afae in 3.3M5 and it seems to work fine.
Alae link seems to be broken. I would like to download it if that could be fixed ;D
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this one: http://robrohan.com/projects/afae/ ?
Tested Afae on Eclipse3.3M6, works fine. :-)
However, In Eclipse3.3 (as opposed to 3.2 and previous versions), the TextEditor offers the feature “insert tabs for spaces”, which now works on most Editors based on the TextEditor class, e.g. TeXlipse. For some reason, Afae Editor always inserts tabs, independent of the setting “edit tabs for spaces” in the preferences: General->Editors->Text Editors, although I think Afae Editor is also based on TextEditor (source code not available any more? )
I love the idea of TextMate in eclipse. Having trouble getting the themes to apply or inserting the snippets, though. Double-clicking them works, but I can’t get them to expand. Any ideas?
@stef
(source code not available any more? ) I am working on putting it into a git repository then I’ll re-release. Afae does some stuff for “smart indenting” that would need to be updated to support spaces for tabs. Since I don’t use spaces for tabs, I never added that.
@ethanm
If you’re using windows you’ll have to change the snippet inserting key stroke because windows doesn’t seem to be able to tell the difference between alt+space bar and alt+shift+space bar (I think that’s the main hiccup on windows anyway)
Not sure about the other things you’re saying. I’d need more information to figure out what’s going on. Afae is opening the files right? Meaning, the file associations for whatever your opening is using the Afae editor and not some other plugin’s editor?
That was it, I didn’t have the files associated properly. (Running Ubuntu, btw) Is there a way to change the font these themes use, though? The one that’s printing is nice, but it’s not monospaced.
You can’t change the fonts per theme, but you can change the overall font. Not optimal, but might get you though.
Go to Window > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts And Colors > Basic > Text area? (It’s the last option in that Basic tree of options). I am away from my systems so that might be off a bit. But basically you set it there and it’ll change the fonts of all the editors