LessCss

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Two Eclipse plug-ins which provide editors for Less (http://lesscss.org/).

Requirements (i.e., developed on, not tested on anything else):

• Eclipse 3.7.1
• Xtext 2.2.1 with ANTLR stuff

You'll find ZIPs with the Eclipse plug-in JARs in the Downloads section. Drop the JARs into the 'dropins' (or 'plugins', if that doesn't work) directory in your Eclipse installation directory and (re-)start your Eclipse. Some of the ZIPs are self-contained, others aren't. I'm not keeping the ZIPs really up-to-date with HEAD, so to live on the bleeding edge: clone, import into a suitable Eclipse and deploy or run the plug-ins yourself.

An p2 update site will be attended to in the future.

Note that these are very much a work-in-progress. I don't aim to provide a full implementation of CSS3, but only of the part that's relevant to Less - in particular, the (extended) selectors.

If you're interested in helping to further develop this, fork at will. I have some specific ideas on how to go from here, so don't expect me to always accept a pull request verbatim. To give an idea, here's a rough TODO list:

• having more unit tests would be a good idea ;-)
• full compliance with CSS3 lexical scanning
• implementation of "generic" CSS3 property values but with expressions
• type system implementation for Less
• implementation of Less imports
• nicer syntax highlighting for both CSS and Less
• evaluation engine for Less (expressions)
• mapping of Less -> CSS (model-2-model transformation)
• builder integration of Less -> CSS, using serialization

License: a MIT-style "hopefully this is useful for someone" one.