Re: Semantic font-lock for Java

[Eric Ludlam]

On 1/29/20 12:14 AM, Anand Tamariya wrote:
>      > https://youtu.be/4UcPIdTJLOM .
>
>     Note that Semantic will cache the AST between sessions, so if you've
>     loaded that file before, it will just load the cache.
>
> First use parse/build delay is an inescapable and acceptable  situation 
> in Java world. Even popular IDEs like Eclipse do that.
> While Emacs will only parse current and relevant files, Eclipse insists 
> on "building" the complete project.
>
>     It is also
>     very old, and at that time (around Java 1.4 or so) the language was
>     still very easy to parse (it doesn't support generics, for instance).
>
> Additional info - I've added support for annotations and generics. It's 
> shown in the demo https://youtu.be/4UcPIdTJLOM?t=50 .
> Only Enum is pending.

This is all very cool.  Supporting font-lock had been often requested, 
seemed possible, but I never got to it.  It's great to see the demo and 
that the tools were able to support it.

Thanks for sharing.
Eric