How to create an Eclipse editor plugin with syntax checking and coloring as fast as posible?

Question

Hello, I'm working on a project that requires to create a series of editors for some quite different languages, these syntaxes are defined by ourselves. I'm looking for a solution about that. Is there a shortcut to take in this problem?

Answer 1

You could use XText:

a framework for development of textual domain specific languages (DSLs).
Just describe your very own DSL using Xtext's simple EBNF grammar language and the generator will create a parser, an AST-meta model (implemented in EMF) as well as a full-featured Eclipse text editor from that.