Is there a good in-browser code editor? [closed]

Answer 1

The editArea javascript library does a pretty good job. It's used by the OpenCMS content management system as it's in-place JSP and JavaScript editor. The colorization gets a bit confused when the file is > 2000 lines or so.

The feature list from their page is:

• Easy to integrate, only one script include and one function call
• Tab support (allow to write well formated source code)
• Search and replace (with regexp)
• Customizable real-time syntax highlighting (currently: PHP, CSS, Javascript, Python, HTML, XML, VB, C, CPP, SQL, Pascal, Basic, Brainf*ck)
• Auto-indenting new lines
• Line numbering
• Multilanguage support (currently: Croatian, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese)
• Full screen mode
• Can work in the same environment than "protype" and "mootools"'s like libraries.

Answer 2

Cloud9 looks interesting if you're a JavaScript developer.

Amy Editor is another browser-based editor I've come across today - it looks like it is trying to emulate TextMate in the browser - including Bundles and Snippets - although the project looks like it's likely dead... Homepage/Demo and source on GitHub

Answer 3

This is a sideways suggestion -- but I use the Firefox plugin "It's All Text!" to send my text-areas to for editing -- all good markups,searching, etc.

Of course, this is user-dependent, and can't be easily rolled-out to visitors, if that is your intent.

However, I tend to get irritated by the limitations of in-browser editors, anyway. (The way SO captures my C-k during edits STILL catches me off-guard... [which means I don't edit everything in Emacs...])

Answer 4

you can check out dockPHP StackHive for web development (based on codemirror). Right now it supports HTML/CSS development but I am working on live javascript-ing as well..

Disclaimer : I am the founder at dockPHP :)

Answer 5

Ace. They don't use an iFrame.