Editor and IDE plugins
Syntax highlight definitions and other plugins for text editors and IDE-s. We encourage everybody to develop and send syntax highlight definitions or other plugins for his/her favorite editor or IDE!
| Editor or IDE | Features | Get it |
|---|---|---|
| Eclipse | Syntax highlight, syntax error marker, code completion for macro names and bean property names. | This is developed as part of JBoss Tools. On Eclipse Oxygen (starting from JBoss Tools 4.5.1): Go to "Help" / "Eclipse Marketplace...", search for "JBoss Tools", "Install". A tree of check boxes will appear, uncheck all (by unchecking the root) except "JBoss Central Community". After installing that, in the Red Hat Central tab (if it's not already open, click the Red Hat icon on the toolbar), on that click the "Add Tools" icon (it looks like a bunch of tools), and there check out "Freemarker IDE", and press "Install/Update" at the bottom. On Eclipse Neon, go to "Help" / "Eclipse Marketplace...", search for "JBoss Tools" (should give version 4.4.x), "Install". A tree of check boxes will appear, uncheck all (by unchecking the root) except "FreeMarker IDE". On older Eclipse versions such as Mars and Luna, the Marketplace only offers JBoss Tools versions in which the FreeMarker support is way too old. But you can install a newer "FreeMarker IDE" manually, and try if it works on your older Eclipse version. The versions made for Eclipse Neon has worked fine on Mars. In Eclipse, go to "Help" / "Install New Software...", and copy-paste http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/neon/stable/updates/ (or even http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/oxygen/stable/updates/) into the "Work with" field. In the text filter field below start to type "freemarker" (or expand the check box tree appearing below), and select "FreeMarker IDE". Be sure no other components was checked. Then "Next", "Next", "Finish". Report
bugs found on the bug
tracker of the JBoss Tools project (Key:
To install the nightly development version, use this Eclipse update site: http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/oxygen/snapshots/builds/jbosstools-freemarker_master/latest/all/repo/ Note: If the plugin comes with an older FreeMarker
version than the one your application uses, it will mark the usage
of too fresh language features as errors. To fix this, find
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| Emacs | Syntax highlight, indentation, block folding, some code navigation. Emacs major-mode for editing Web templates, includes FreeMarker support among others. | The homepage of web-mode.el |
| Emacs (tried with 20.7) | Syntax highlighting | ftl.el v0.1 |
| Kate and KWrite (tried with Kate 2.5.10 and 3.2) | Syntax highlighting | kwriteftl.tar.gz (2009-08-08) |
| NetBeans (tried with 8.0.2) | Syntax highlight, syntax error marker, directive name auto-completion. | Can be installed from NetBeans, under Tools/Plugins. Also manually from its NetBeans plugin portal page... |
| NetBeans (6.0, may doesn't work with 7+) | Syntax highlight, code completion, template navigation | Download from its NetBeans plugin portal page... |
| TextMate | Syntax highlight | Install from GitHub Project |
| TextPad 4 or later | Syntax highlight | textpadftl.zip (2003-03-24) |
| Vim ("Vi IMproved") | Syntax highlight | ftl.vim (2011-10-07) |
Note that some editors/IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA and jEdit, supports FreeMarker out-of-the-box.