Question

The Problem

I’ve been working on a NetBeans module that supports lexing/parsing for the Two Line Element data format (from here on out referred to as "TLE Files"), as described here:

https://celestrak.org/columns/v04n03/

Each TLE File follows this basic format where N=0-9, C=’U’ or ‘S’, A=a-Z,0-9, + = ‘ ‘,’+’, or ‘-‘, and - = ‘+’ or ‘-‘. All other characters, including white space, must be exactly the same, and each row of data must have exactly 69 columns:

1 NNNNNC NNNNNAAA NNNNN.NNNNNNNN +.NNNNNNNN +NNNNN-N +NNNNN-N N NNNNN
2 NNNNN NNN.NNNN NNN.NNNN NNNNNNN NNN.NNNN NNN.NNNN NN.NNNNNNNNNNNNNN

My lexer and parser are implemented in terms of org.netbeans.spi.lexer.Lexer and org.netbeans.modules.parsing.spi.Parser, respectively. Both work great and I get the syntax highlighting/error correction I initially set out to create, but one minor issue still eludes me. When I make a change to a TLE file in the NetBeans text editor, I can’t use the CTRL–S keyboard shortcut to save my changes. Instead, I have to select "File" –> "Save". Any ideas on why this might be?

Additional information

1. I’m using my module’s layer.xml config file to register my custom lexer/parser with NetBeans using the languageProvider.instance flag.
2. I’m using org-netbeans-modules-editor-NbEditorKit as my language’s editor.
3. I have not added any custom actions to my module up to this point.

I’m admittedly very new to NetBeans module development, so I’m not 100% sure what information may be needed to fix this issue. Do let me know if you think more information is needed and I’ll add it here.

Answer 1

I figured it out. The answer was relatively simple. All I had to do was add the following base-level folder entry to the filesystem defined by my module’s layer.xml file:

<folder name="Shortcuts">
    <file name="D-S.shadow">
        <attr name="originalFile" stringvalue="Actions/System/org-openide-actions-SaveAction.instance"/>
    </file>
</folder>