| Editor/IDE plugins |
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Below you can find syntax highlight definitions and other plugins for text editors and IDE-s that help you working with FreeMarker. We encourage everybody to develop and send syntax highlight definitions or other plugins for his/her favorite editor or IDE.
If you know of another product that should appear here, drop us a note.
The plugins
Anybody wants to improve these syntax highlights is welcome!
| Editor or IDE | Features | Version | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eclipse 3.2.1+ | Syntax highlight, syntax error indicator, outline view,
code completion for macro names and bean property names.
Note: The included freemarker.jar is often outdated; overwrite it with a newer version manually if you get error messages when using newer template language constructs. |
Part of the JBoss Tools Project,
but also available there as standalone download (no dependencies).
JBoss Tools Project download page... |
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| Emacs | Syntax highlight, indentation, block folding, some code navigation. Emacs major-mode for editing Web templates, includes FreeMarker support among others. | The homepage of web-mode.el | |
| Eclipse (tried with 3.x) | FreeMarker documentation in the Eclipse help system. Requires FreeMarker 2.3rc1 (or later), or 2.2.6 (or later) from the 2.2.x series |
2004-03-13 | fm-eclipse-help.tar.gz |
| Emacs (tried with 20.7) | Syntax highlight | 0.1 | ftl.el |
| Kate and KWrite (tried with Kate 2.5.10 and 3.2) | Syntax highlight | 2009-08-08 | kwriteftl.tar.gz |
| NetBeans 6.0 or later | Syntax highlight, code completion, template navigation | Downloadable from the NetBeans plugins
site.
NetBeans plugin download page... |
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| TextPad 4 or later | Syntax highlight | 2003-03-24 | textpadftl.zip |
| Vim ("Vi IMproved") | Syntax highlight | 2011-10-07 | ftl.vim |
Products that support FreeMarker out-of-the-box
| IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 | A well-known feature-rich commercial Java IDE. |
| jEdit 4.1 | jEdit is a Free programmer's text editor written in Java. It is highly customizable, extensible, and has an easy-to-use interface. |
| SitePad Pro 6 | SitePad Pro is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java, HTML, VRML and other files. It's commercial software. |
