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dassouki
dassouki

Reputation: 6366

AJAX based remote Online text editor

I'm looking to install an online text editor on my server, that I can link to svn.

I would like to have some form of syntax highlighting, keyboard shortcuts, and perhaps some text complete.

Languages, python, php, sql, and C++ are a minimum ...

any suggestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 871

Answers (2)

Krab
Krab

Reputation: 2148

you should have a look at https://mozillalabs.com/bespin/

I've tried it and decided not to use it, but only because it's web-based, the same reason why I use googledocs only when I really need to.

If you don't want to build a public service, you may use the approach I like. That is to install your favourite editor/IDE at the server and start ssh server. From the client, connect with enabled X forwarding (to connect from Windows, use Xming an portablePuTTY).

Upvotes: 2

Ned Deily
Ned Deily

Reputation: 85045

I don't know of any browser-based client-server editors like that, assuming I understand correctly what you are trying to do.

Two things come to mind:

  1. Since it's a long-solved problem and generally fairly trivial task to configure a svn server and there are plenty of text editors / IDEs out there with svn client interfaces, why re-invent the wheel?

  2. If you must or really want to and have gobs of time, go wild and crazy perhaps by starting with a simple existing Python-based editor (Leo perhaps?) or roll you own and/or existing syntax highlighting packages, like Pygments, find a way to split it into a client-server architecture with some AJAX glue between them, and port the front-end client part to run under Pyjamas, a framework for running a subset of Python as JavaScript, and to use a browser as the GUI. And let us know how it turns out!

Upvotes: 1

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