[GROOVY-3722] Find AST node corresponding to selected text

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7-beta-1
• Component/s: Groovy Console
• Labels: contrib
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peter Niederwieser
• Created: 02/Sep/09 11:34
• Updated: 05/May/17 03:57

Description

I just discovered that the AST browser highlights the source code corresponding to the selected AST node, which is very helpful. For me, the killer feature would be to have it also work the other way around: select some source code, and have the AST browser jump to (one of) the corresponding AST node(s). This would make it incredibly simple to inspect the AST representation for some code.