Question

I am trying to develop a simple Eclipse plugin to understand how it works.

I have two questions about this:

How can I get the content of the active editor?

Do you have a good documentation about life cycle plugin and co? I can’t find real good documentation on Google.

Answer 1

Regarding the content of the current editor, there are several ways to do this. The following code is not tested:

public String getCurrentEditorContent() {
    final IEditorPart activeEditor = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage()
            .getActiveEditor();
    if (activeEditor == null)
        return null;
    final IDocument doc = (IDocument) activeEditor.getAdapter(IDocument.class);
    if (doc == null) return null;

    return doc.get();
}