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Bug 316516

Summary:	RFE: Form-based editor for configure.ac and Makefile.am
Product:	[Tools] CDT	Reporter:	Andrew Overholt <overholt>
Component:	cdt-autotools	Assignee:	Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, anna.dushistova, cdtdoug
Version:	8.1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Overholt

2010-06-10 14:58:15 EDT

This will not be easy, but it would be great to have a two-way form-based editor for configure.ac and Makefile.am.  I am envisioning something like the PDE form editors for build.properties, MANIFEST.MF, plugin.xml, etc.  Yes, there will have to be a line drawn for what sane things are exposed in the form editor and which ones are either on an Advanced tab or are only done in the text editor.

Ideas/discussion very welcome.

P.S. Yes, I realize that this might involve writing an m4 parser in Java :)

Comment 1 Alexander Kurtakov

2019-02-07 11:02:13 EST

Form editors are overrated and people are tending towards lighter editors so this one would not happen.