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Build tools

Each detected build tool gets its own tasks tool window (its stripe appears when the tool’s marker file is present, docked on the right by default): a browsable tree of the tool’s goals, scripts, or targets with a mini toolbar (Run / Reload / Stop / Run custom…). Double-click or Enter runs a task, and the output streams to the shared Output window, which has one tab per tool (created on first run and selected while it runs), so two builds running at once stay in separate tabs instead of interleaving. A searchable actions popup is also available from the palette (<tool>.showActions, e.g. Maven: Show Actions). tool.<tool> opens the tasks window; tool.buildOutput opens the Output console. It’s on by default, and each tool is inert until its marker file is found.

The console is not only for builds — it was called “Build Output” until 0.10.0, and the rename reflects what it now holds. Alongside a tab per build tool it carries a CI tab for a failed GitHub Actions log, and a Git and GitHub tab holding a transcript of the git / gh commands Editora ran on your behalf, each with its output, exit code and duration. Only the window’s label changed; its stripe placement and any keybinding you gave tool.buildOutput are unaffected.

Maven and Gradle prefer the project’s own ./mvnw / ./gradlew wrapper, falling back to mvn / gradle on your PATH. npm uses the detected package manager (npm / yarn / pnpm / bun) from the packageManager field or the lockfile.

Discovery parses the marker file directly, with no shell-out and no new dependency, so it’s instant and offline. Toggle each under Settings → Languages & Tools → Build Tools.

Maven

The Maven submenu

A Maven submenu appears wherever there’s a pom in hand: on a pom.xml in the editor’s right-click menu, and on a folder or a pom.xml row in the Project tree. It carries Update Versions, Actions, Run…, Re-run, and Stop.

One builder serves all three surfaces, so they can’t drift into offering different actions, and it offers nothing at all when Maven is off, when there’s no pom above the folder, or on a file that isn’t itself a pom.xml.

Update the versions in an existing project

maven.updateVersions checks the nearest pom.xml’s dependencies and plugins against Maven Central and shows what would change before writing anything — a row per artifact, current → latest, behind a dialog you can decline. Nothing is written until you accept.

The update is applied through the open buffer as a single edit, so one C-z takes the whole thing back and the buffer is left dirty for you to save. Only a pom that isn’t open is written to disk.

Three deliberate limits, each because the obvious behaviour is wrong:

• Maven Central’s <release> marker is not trusted. It means “newest non-snapshot published”, which for maven-surefire-plugin was a milestone for years; the full version list is filtered for stability instead.
• A version is never walked backwards, which an unguarded set-to-latest would do to a pom pinned on purpose.
• A property-driven version (${junit.version}) is skipped. Rewriting the reference would replace the indirection you chose, and rewriting the property is a different edit with a different blast radius.

Each artifact is resolved independently and best-effort, so one unreachable coordinate leaves that version alone rather than failing the rest. A plugin with no <version> is left alone too — its version comes from a parent, and writing one would change resolution rather than update it.

The same option is offered up front when generating a new project.

Test runner

Running a build tool’s test task, from the tasks tree, the palette (test.run), or a gutter icon, is intercepted and shown in a dedicated Test Results tool window (M-g e) instead of only as raw console text. The same single process still runs, and its raw output still streams to the Output console.

The window shows a status header with pass / fail / skip counts, a progress bar, and elapsed time, over a tree of suites and tests. Selecting a test shows its failure message, stack trace, and captured output in the detail pane, with clickable stack frames. Double-click or Enter on a test jumps to its source.

Results are parsed per tool: Maven and Gradle read the JUnit XML reports as they are written, Go uses go test -json, npm reads TAP when the reporter emits it, and Cargo parses libtest output. Where a structured format isn’t available, the window says so and points at the Output console.

For an unfiltered JVM run, Editora scans the project’s test sources up front and pre-seeds the whole expected list greyed-out, flipping each entry green or red as results land, so a long run reads like a progress bar rather than classes appearing already finished. Parameterized and dynamic tests are left out of the seed, since their case ids are generated at runtime.

JUnit test classes and methods also get a run icon in the gutter (with a tooltip naming what it runs), and a test file’s right-click menu offers Run Tests for the whole class. test.runAtCaret and test.runClassAtCaret do the same from the keyboard, and test.rerun, test.rerunFailed, and test.stop control the run. Gutter icons are JVM-only and need a detected Maven or Gradle project.

Toggle the whole feature under Settings → Languages & Tools → Build Tools (view.toggleTestRunner). It’s off in Simple UI mode.