IEditorPart as well as the configuration capabilities of a text editor. Text editors are configured with an IDocumentProvider which delivers a textual presentation (IDocument) of the editor's input. The editor works on the document and forwards all input element related calls, such as save, to the document provider. The provider also delivers the input's annotation model which is used by the editor's vertical ruler.
Clients may implement this interface from scratch, but the recommended way is to subclass the abstract base class AbstractTextEditor.
In order to provided backward compatibility for clients of ITextEditor, extension interfaces are used to provide a means of evolution. The following extension interfaces exist:
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