LiClipse

LiClipse provides a new experience for Eclipse users

With it, users get out of the box:

• A fast editor supporting many languages out of the box. View supported languages
• Support for TextMate Bundles. View TextMate Bundles Integration
• A simple way to add support for a new language
• Usability improvements for all Eclipse editors featuring:
• Multiple cursors
• Vertical indent guides
• Themed scrollbars
• Improved text search capabilities (with Lucene index-based searching, support for external folders, open editors and additional filtering on results page)
• HTML preview for the RST, Markdown and HTML editors
• Native installers
• Improved theming support based on Eclipse 4 improvements
  
  

  

Release Highlights for LiClipse 5.1.3

• Updated PyDev to 7.0.3.
• Debugger performance improvements (on Python 3.6 onwards).
• Mypy can be used for doing code analysis.
• Black can be used as the code formatting engine.
• It's now possible to use pipenv for managing virtual environments.
• It's possible to manage virtual environments from the editor (Ctrl+2, pip/conda/pipenv).
• Updated EGit.

Release Highlights for LiClipse 5.0.3

• Updated PyDev to 6.5.0.
• Debugger improvements.
• #region/#endregion code folding.
• Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I to change default interpreter.
• Scroll lock for interactive interpreter.
• Updated EGit.

Release Highlights for LiClipse 5.0.2

• Updated PyDev to 6.4.4.
• Fixes in debugger.
• Fixes parsing f-strings.

View highlights for previous releases

Supported languages feature syntax highlighting, template completion, outline, select/deselect scope, comment/uncomment, auto-indent, linked edition, multi-edition, mark occurrences, among others.

As a note, some editors have improved support:

The HTML editor has advanced context-based code-completion

The HTML, XML and JavaScript editors have code-analysis and code-formatting features

Usability improvements for all Eclipse editors

At this point, the major improvements are multi-edition and vertical indent guides, supporting all editors (such as PyDev, JDT, etc).

See: Multi-Edition Video for details

Besides the multi-edition (which can be triggered in a Ctrl+K search or with the mouse with Ctrl+Alt+Mouse Click), the rectangular edit is also improved to be triggered with Alt+Click (and stopped with escape).

Bundling of other useful plugins

Eclipse has a myriad of useful plugins, and LiClipse bundles some which are considered to be useful regardless of which language you're dealing with: Eclipse Color Theme, StartExplorer, AnyEdit and PyDev (note that PyDev does not follow the rule of being useful for everyone as the other plugins, but LiClipse itself reuses parts of the PyDev codebase).