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Editing ECLiPSe constraint logic code in the Eclipse IDE
Posted on April 8th by david
One of our projects uses the ECLiPSe constraint logic programming language (a more powerful flavor of Prolog) in conjunction with Java (which is a good way to integrate graphics, unit testing, etc). One of the most popular developer tools for Java is the Eclipse IDE (yes, same name, totally different application), and we'd like to find a similarly-powerful editor for our pure-Prolog (.pro) and ECLiPSe (.ecl) files -- one that provides indicators of (im)balanced parens, coloring of built-in predicates and syntax, and maybe code completion and compiler warnings. ECLiPSe had a project called Saros on sourceforge that aimed to provide all this functionality, plus a debugger. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get any of these features working in its 1.0 version (after installing it as a plugin in the IDE). I've also heard that development on Saros has stopped. However, I would be happy just getting paren-balancing, and I found a way to do that in the Eclipse IDE: Go to Window | Preferences Select General | Content Types in the left pane, and then on the right, select ...