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?
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:
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?
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!
Hi, 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).