[jbosstools-dev] AsciiDoc editor and preview

As several projects (JDF, CDI, Arquillian, etc) move more towards using lightweight markup languages for documentation, I see a real opportunity in JBossTools to provide an AsciiDoc (and perhaps Markdown) editor and preview pane, very similar to how the HTML editor works. (In fact, personally, I see more value in this tool than the HTML editor). The features I'd like to see are: * syntax highlighting * syntax assistance and/or templates * preview pane (split or as separate tab) It may also be interesting to have a view which can help layout text-based diagrams. See AsciiFlow (http://asciiflow.com) to get the idea. Text-based diagramming can save developers a lot of time. Although AsciiDoc is written in Python, it can be invoked in Java through Jython [1]. There is also effort underway to create a Ruby port, which would enable it to be called via JRuby [2]. -Dan [1] https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc-maven-plugin/blob/master/src/main/ja... [2] https://github.com/erebor/asciidoctor -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction