Integrating an external highlighting tool in the Eclipse editor
Ok, this is probably easy, but I don't know the right words to describe this, and hence google it ...
I have an external script that takes a filename and outputs this:
/path/to/file.py:683:80: E501 line too long (85 characters)
/path/to/file.py:690:21: other error message
..etc..
Now I know that this output format is widely used by other, very simple IDEs, for example. EditPlus. I don't know how to integrate it with Eclipse.
I want this script to be integrated with my editor windows. I want Eclipse to run it in the background, every time I save the file, and then parse the results and mark all the lines that were printed in the script's output. It should look something like this:
How can i do this?
Note (for those who know why I need this): I know that PyDev is integrated with the pep8.py test program, but this is not enough.
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Your own plugin that runs the script and parses its output can generate markers from that output. See http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Mark%20My%20Words/mark-my-words.html .
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