"... author of the thing, didn't submit the link here) did do some polishing and commenting on the code recently ..." Hey Marijn I didn't know the code had be

"... author of the thing, didn't submit the link here) did do some polishing and commenting on the code recently ..." Hey Marijn I didn't know the code had been previously submitted. I added your article because I've been looking to hack up a simple Javascript console editor to work with. editing Javascript in Firebug is okay for simple expressions useless for anything above 3 lines Coding in the browser allows the REPL [0] time to be reduced and you get instant feedback. So this lead me to your article. What I intend to do is try to re-create pythons idle shell [2] allowing you to type in syntax (highlighted) then press enter, eval the code on the next line. Reading your article helps me a lot in solving this. I re-created the demo in about 5min last night. One problem I do have is entering text then hitting newline. Artifacts are left on-screen and the gutter spacing is odd. I'll see if YUI Dom object can solve the placement problem. I do like the style of syntaxhighlighter. [3] Did you ever think of adding line numbers? [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REPL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REPL [1] Demo code ~ http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/ http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/ [2] http://www.python.org/idle/doc/idle2.html#Shell http://www.python.org/idle/doc/idle2.html#Shell [3] http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/ http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/