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I've seen Veloedit, which seems to have good syntax highlighting but doesn't allow tab characters in the file being edited (wtf?) and also has no understanding of HTML.

With a little bit of googling I've found Veloecipse, which claims to build upon Veloedit and also add HTML support - but doesn't seem to be compatible with Eclipse 3.4.

Are there any other Velocity template editor plugins for Eclipse that anyone is using?

The ideal solution would have the following features:

  • Syntax hightlighting of VTL
  • HTML syntax highlighting as well
  • Auto-complete of VTL syntax
  • Allows tabs!

Update: see my answer below

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just try

Velocity Web Edit

http://velocitywebedit.sourceforge.net/

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Patrick Cornelissen
I've been using Veloeclipse and it works well
matt b
Hmm, I tried it yesterday and I got all sorts of weird exceptions when I tried to use the editor on my eclipse 3.4 But I am having some other problems too, so this may be related to this system/eclipse installation. I will give it another try.
Patrick Cornelissen
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Here's an update: I've been using Veloeclipse and it works well, not sure what led to my original comment about not working with Eclipse 3.4 but I am definitely using it with 3.4 now. Veloeclipse works better than Veloedit and Velocity Web Editor, in my opinion.

matt b
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Also getting frustrated by lack of tabs!

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I have installed Veloeclipse since Veloedit raised exceptions when opening the editor and it works fine with eclipse 3.5.2.

In order to install it, I had to deselect "Group items by category" in the "Install new software..." dialog.

Oliver Schmidt