I need a text editor that supports cross platform JavaScript languages such as jQuery or MooTools.
I do not mean a rich text editor. I'm looking for an "intellisense" text editor to develop in those languages.
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I think IntelliJ is as good an editor for JavaScript as there is. They parse everything into an abstract syntax tree, so the tool can be very smart about knowing what you need to do.
duffymo
2010-05-01 01:50:19
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Are you looking for an IDE? If so Aptana or Eclipse+Aptana are reasonable choices - good javascript support as well as jquery and mootools specific support. Bit of a resource hog, but not too bad.
Parand
2010-05-01 05:18:50
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dojox.highlight has code to do the parsing and such. I think a couple of people have written text editors based on this or similar technologies, a few were based on RTE which turned out not to perform well.
You may want to look at EditArea, which I don't think is based on any of these toolkits. You might also look at Bespin, which is very sophisticated but a larger piece of code built on SproutCore.
peller
2010-05-03 16:09:21