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Ask YC: Online Text Editors.
Ok, I've been looking for an online text(code) editor.
For WYSIWIG there are many options, and a few leading free ones, but I can't find anything in the Code Editing realm.
Preferably it'd be open source, secondly; if not, something that I can host/integrate and not a hosted thing.
I know you have apps doing on-demand code running etc around here, so surely somebody else is using something similliar to this.
Thanks
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- raju 19y agoHere is one amy-editor (http://www.april-child.com/amy/amy.php http://www.april-child.com/amy/amy.php). If you are doing ruby on rails, Heroku also has an online editor built.
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- sah 19y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Javascript-based_source_code_editors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Javascript-based_... EditArea has a lot of features and works well, if it displays properly in your browser: http://www.cdolivet.net/editarea/ http://www.cdolivet.net/editarea/ CodePress does pretty well in FireFox: http://codepress.org/ http://codepress.org/ I think CodeMirror has the most potential -- I like the parser design in particular: http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/ http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/
- thomas 19y agotinyMCE is the big one, there is also FCKeditor . list: http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors
- izak30 19y agoYeah, those are WYSIWIG, I'm looking for Code editors. (like textmate, EMacs, etc
- dfranke 19y agoJust curious, why do you want one? It seems to me that a code editor is almost uniquely unsuited to be a web app. You need to keep your data locally anyhow, unless your whole toolchain is a web service. Furthermore, my editor is a tool I want absolute control over: I don't want its behavior changing unexpectedly when a new update is released.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoThe closer the average textfield's behavior could be to that of emacs, the happier I would be. Mac OS X supports a decent batch of emacs-style keybindings -- C-a and C-e work, C-k and C-y work, the cursor-movement keys work. Give me C-s and C-r and I would be even happier, though. Or C-x C-w to write half-written drafts of news.yc posts to files for backup. Or C-x C-i to import text from files on disk. The list goes on and on. I type an unfortunate amount of text into browser fields during the course of a day. It would be nice to be able to make these fields work more like a decent editor, and by that I don't mean TinyMCE.
- izak30 19y ago9ne is an e-macs type textarea project.. but it was too buggy for me to consider
- brianloveswords 19y agoI can't think of a single time I've ever used C-x C-i. I have my C-w bound to backward-kill-word, which I definitely wish every editable text area would obey. I find it's damn near always faster to kill the whole word and retype it rather than C-h to the spot of the typo.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoWell, that's emacs for you. Everyone gravitates to different bits. Yes, backward-kill-word would be excellent. I have C-backspace bound to that in Emacs, but I also have a Kinesis keyboard, so C-backspace is just as easy to type as C-w.
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- wenbert 19y agoare you looking for something like this? http://www.cdolivet.net/editarea/ http://www.cdolivet.net/editarea/
- izak30 19y agoYES. If I could give you another point for this I would. It's been ridiculously hard to find something that is matureish in this area.
- tlrobinson 19y agoNot sure how easy this is to integrate, but this is an interesting read about implementing a continuation based syntax highlighter in JavaScript. http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/story.html http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/story.html
- aaroniba 19y agoappjet.com has an editor (written in javascript, for javascript)
- maryrosecook 19y agoNot sure if this will do, but you if you're on OS X you can use TextMate's 'Edit In TextMate' to edit code in any text field in any web browser.