IMPORTANT: Author of this plugin might not get alerted for any comments made here on this blog’s comments section. I request you all to directly raise issue on the github repository for this product here : https://github.com/ajayhada/Rich-VisualForce-Editor/issues
For those who don’t know about Rich Visualforce Editor, its discussed in my previous blog post. On a high level it gives content assist support in visualforce.
New updates !!!
@AjayHada added a couple of new features to Rich Visualforce Editor, like :
Context sensitive help for visualforce tags, i.e. select the tag name and press “CTRL + 1”
Toolbar icons to quickly launch visualforce and apex developer guide right inside eclipse.
Contextual icons in content assist box for tags and attributes.
Update site support. Now updating the plugin is super easy.
Further details below about each update :
Context sensitive help for Visualforce tags !
Now if you need to know more about a visualforce tag you are currently coding around. Just select the tag name after “apex:”, as show below
TODO : Please note, we are working on an enhancement that will open context sensitive help on a tag without selecting the tag name. It will be out soon in a week time.
Toolbar icons for Visualforce & apex developer guide
Two new toolbar icons are added to quickly launch Apex and Visualforce developer guide right inside eclipse.
Contextual icons in content assist box for tags and attributes.
Content assist box is beautified now to support different icons for tags and attributes as shown below.
Update site support
Now less of manual intervention is required in updating the rich visualforce editor. It supports Update site from this version. To update, please follow these steps
Goto “About Eclipse” dialog. To get this dialog, Mac users “Eclipse > About Eclipse”, Windows/Linux users, “help > about eclipse”.
Hit the “Installation details” button.
Hit Update button in next dialog as indicated below. Please agree and complete the next screens on the update flow :
Roadmap
We are working in couple of more features as mentioned in TODO section of my previous post.
Feedback & Views
Looking forward to those !
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Comments (19)
Anonymoussays:
November 9, 2011 at 11:05 pmThe previous version worked beautiful on the Force.com IDE. Since you can't update the plugin via the Force.com IDE, I tried to add it as a plugin (dropin). I'm getting error message: missing bundle : org.eclipse.ui.editors 3.6.1. I checked the current version for the IDE is 3.5.0. Is there any chance I can update the editor plugin as I can install the Rich Visualforce Editor?Thanks.
Anonymoussays:
November 10, 2011 at 1:29 amCan you please re-build the solution but instead of 3.6.1 use 3.5.0 for org.eclipse.ui.editors plugin as it will work for the Force.com IDE as well…
Anonymoussays:
November 10, 2011 at 1:32 amSure e-bacho, I will pass this message to the @Ajay(Developer of this plugin). We will do it sooner, after finishing up the tasks planned for next release.Though I would strongly recommend leaving force.com ide and installing it in Eclipse 3.6+ as a plugin. Force.com IDE is rarely updated and Eclipse is moving fast.
Anonymoussays:
November 10, 2011 at 1:34 am@e-bacho we will try to give you a drop in jar for time being, so that it works on Eclipse 3.5
Anonymoussays:
November 10, 2011 at 2:30 amI'm using both Force.com IDE and eclipse as well and it would be great if this plugin works for both environments…Cheers
Anonymoussays:
January 30, 2012 at 3:23 pmi'm sorry but i can't install itlooks it's missing the source url to install new sofware via eclipse wizardcan you provide the repository ?git extension isn't supported
Anonymoussays:
January 30, 2012 at 5:37 pmTomasi, I will update Ajay the author of this plugin about the same, he will send you an update.
Anonymoussays:
February 1, 2012 at 2:50 pmTomasi, Please download plugin from following link https://github.com/downloads/ajayhada/Rich-VisualForce-Editor/RichVisualForceEditor_1.0.4.jarThanks for showing your interest in this plugin.
Anonymoussays:
February 14, 2012 at 3:17 amI have the entire list of visualforce tags in JSON if you need it or the developer of the Rich Visualforce Editor.
Anonymoussays:
February 14, 2012 at 4:17 am@Banders I notified Ajay about the same, he will revert soon. I believe this should be a good help.
Anonymoussays:
February 15, 2012 at 1:33 pmWhere should I send it to? Do you already have it as well?
Anonymoussays:
February 15, 2012 at 1:44 pmThanks @Banders Please send it to my mail ajay.hada@gmail.com. Thanks for your support..
Anonymoussays:
February 15, 2012 at 3:33 pmI sent it to your email
Anonymoussays:
March 7, 2012 at 9:27 amHi!Is there a public update site?If not, I'd gladly host it for you. I'm the author of the Apex Editor LS – an enhanced apex editor plugin for eclipse, and our plugins would very nicely complement each other.
Anonymoussays:
April 17, 2012 at 2:32 pm@Krešimir Tonković It is hosted on dropboxhttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/12269376/RichVisualForceEditorUpdateSitethanks,
Anonymoussays:
September 9, 2012 at 4:21 amThis plugin is not working at all for me. I am using Eclipse Galielo JEE version and also tried on Eclipse Helios for Java developers. Even the jar is not extracting in plugin folders at all. Please help.
Anonymoussays:
September 9, 2012 at 4:23 pmPlease open an issue here : https://github.com/ajayhada/Rich-VisualForce-Editor/issuesso that author of the plugin can revert back to you.
Anonymoussays:
December 11, 2012 at 10:33 amI am using eclipse helios…downloaded the jars with much dificulty and copies it everywer possible. But open with RFE never wrked!!!!!! and that update site shows 404 error
Anonymoussays:
December 11, 2012 at 12:14 pmKeerthan,Author of this plugin might not get alerted for any comments made here on this blog’s comments section. I request you all to directly raise issue on the github repository for this product here : https://github.com/ajayhada/Rich-VisualForce-Editor/issues