Installing Third Party Plugins
One of the best features of MPLAB® X IDE is that you can extend the IDE by installing plugins from the community-at-large, not just those supplied by Microchip. At the NetBeans Plugin Portal there are hundreds of available plugins, many of which are compatible with MPLAB X IDE.
Some of the many plugins embedded developers might find useful include:
- Rectangular Edit Tools
- ClearCase Version Control Integration
- Git Version Control Integration
- Doxygen Integration
- History Clipboard
- Auto-Save at Specified Interval
- Breadcrumb list of recently edited files
While I have used some of these plugins, I cannot vouch for their safety or whether they will function as described. These are provided by third parties who are independent of Microchip. Use at your own risk.