Eclipse Template Editor plugin

From Chunk Java Template Engine

Installing the plugin

1. Download the plugin jar from google code.
2. Find your Eclipse installation's "dropins" folder and copy the plugin jar into that folder.
   • On OSX, this is /Applications/eclipse/dropins/
3. Restart Eclipse.
4. In Eclipse Preferences, find settings panel for File Associations. Should be in
   • General -> Editors -> File Associations
5. Click the Add... button and add *.chtml
   • Select *.chtml and click the other "Add..." button down by the "Associated Editors" list below.
   • From the list of "Internal Editors" (make sure "External Programs" is not checked), scroll down and select
     • "HTML Chunk Template Editor"
6. Repeat step 5 for *.cxml (and whatever other extensions you wish to use for your templates).
7. (Optional) Add "Chunk Template Editor" to the list of available editors for *.html files. I make it the default but of course this is up to you.

Hooray! Syntax highlighting! Outline view!

Bonus: Snippet Hyperlinks

Template references are hyperlinked! Cmd-click any template reference to jump to that snippet's definition.

And from within your java code, right-click a template name anywhere in your code and select "Open Snippet" to jump to the definition.

UTF-8

The Chunk template engine, as of 1.5, assumes that your templates use charset UTF-8. If you use any accented or unusual characters in your templates, I strongly recommend to Eclipse users that you set your workspace default charset to UTF-8.

Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace -> Text file encoding -> UTF-8