text-editor

Popping the IDE cherry

Although I've been a developer for years I've never used a PHP IDE - I've always just used a decent editor. What am I missing? I generally code on local servers so I can debug as if my code were running on my own machine, I have code highlighting, I have shortcuts set up to look up function names and so on. Is it worth investing the time...

Is there any "multi-user-real-time" text editor ?

Hi I'm looking for application like spreadsheet on google docs, where lot of users from internet (or ethernet) can edit one document, and see changes from everybody in real time. I need this for putting some fixes or new variables to SMARTY template files, when another person is styling that file from another computer. It could be exce...

Is there a good Vi(m) command for transposing arguments in a function call? Bonus points for Emacs

For example if I have some code like: foo = bar("abc", "def", true, callback); Is there a nice command to move true to the 1st or 2nd position leaving the commas intact? P.S as a bonus my friend want to know if this works in Emacs too. ...

Which Text Editor For Ubuntu Should I Use.

Mac just crashed, and I have a Windows box that's actually more beefed up but I'm not about to go that route, especially because I'm using git and rails. So Ubuntu is the next step I guess. I was using Textmate which was exceptional. Looks like I have to move on for a while. What editor do you use with Ubuntu? Please don't say vi or...

VIM better way to replace line from the first symbol

Hi, Having the code: [Test] public void ShouldDoSomethingMeaningFull() { Assert.Fail(); } I often need to overwrite the line (3) Assert.Fail();. What I currently do is this: Go to that line 3G. Select everything starting from first non-whitespace ^v$. Change it - c. The whole sequence is: 3G^v$c. While this works for me but ...

Is there a way to make Textedit the default editor for text files opened in the terminal?

It there a way to make files opened for editing in the terminal open in Textedit instead? I mean, where a command might open a file for editing (like git commit), instead of opening that file in vi or emacs, it would open in Textedit (or perhaps another Textediting application of you choosing, such as Coda). And as a bonus question, is...

TinyMCE: Enable Individual Buttons

Can I add individual buttons? I would like to give the user control, but not too much control so I need to enable some buttons but disable others. Can this be done? ...

Is there a decent html editor that works in-browser?

I am using Wordpress and I want site editors to be able to write html by hand (no wysiwyg). However, everyone knows that editing html in a textarea with no colorization or other code editor features is difficult. Does anyone know of a solution -- maybe a textarea replacement, browser extension, or the like? There are plenty of wysiwyg...

Where is the basic Control-TAB (MRU) behavior in XCode?

In most multi-document editors for windowing environments, Control-TAB will utilize an MRU list to bring the user back to the last visible file. What is the appropriate command to accomplish this in XCode 3.x? I currently have Ctrl-TAB mapped to "View|Previous File", however this does not appear to be an MRU. Worse yet, if it hits the ...

What is the least distracting way to show some new information?

I'm working on an editor for novel authors. After seeing programs like DarkRoom, I wanted to add an full screen mode. In addition to that, I'd like to offer an option to show information about characters and other relevant data as you type (so you don't have to grab the mouse just because you can't remember a detail about one of your cha...

Pasting code and keeping the correct aligning

I don't think I'm alone in spending a fair amount of my programming time moving bits of code from place to place, often within the same file. However, in my experience thus far, every time I cut/copy and paste some code I need to manually realign the spacing so that the pasted code is corrected indented and aligned. For example in the ...

How to design undo & redo in text editor?

Part of my project is write text editor that used for type some rule and my application compile and run it. Writing compiler was end and release beta version. In final version we must add undo and redo in text editor.I use file and save it periodically for text editor. How to design undo and redo to my text editor? What is change in stru...

Best Python text editor on Ubuntu?

I'm new to Ubuntu and know it has a command line version of python already installed. However, I want a full text editor. What python editor would be best? How do I install it? ...

INSERT / INCLUDE Text file content inside HTML page.

Hello Everyone!!! I've got kinda MLM site to make, Like be a member buy purchasing any product of company and create other members under you, in your downline and for that you get commission in product they buy. This is the concept. But, that company is providing a website as its Product. Now, That product is a Website, Where From 100 r...

Indentation in WPF TextFormatter

Hi everybody! I'm making a WPF text-editor using TextFormatter. I need to indent some paragraphs, so I'm using the Indent property from the TextParagraphProperties class. This works great in this scenario: Regular text without any indentation.     This paragraph has a uniform     indentation so everything is     ok. But I also need th...

Javascript WYSIWYG Editor and font sizes and I am stumped

I'm creating a Javascript WYSWYG editor (yes I know a million already exist but none met my needs) and I've hit a wall. I need only two features in my editor: 1) Users should be able to select any font size specified in pts. 2) Users should be able to have text of various sizes in the same editor window. Sounds simple but you'd be sur...

A WYSIWYG text editor for iPhone Safari?

Hello. After a few tests with my iPhone on various sites (a few Django one etc) I was looking at WYSIWYG editors and realised they don't really work too well on small touch screen devices such as the iPhone. Infact, TinyMCE (which I use for most Django projects) just doesn't really work at all. So I'm curious, is there a solution out t...

Text editor for scala

I'm tired of using IDEs for scala because it can take several minutes to write one line of code on my computer (before I started programming in scala I didn't surmise that it is slow). It's a great pity that there is no option to turn off some features of scala plugin (of any IDE) that devour 100% of my cpu power and not necessary for me...

Activating text editing macros on Netbeans

This question was asked on Super User but I didn't get any response so I moved it here...I believe it is relevant and important... I've been using Netbeans on Mac OS X for sometime it has some really good features but it doesn't support most of the macros and that sucks. I'm not only talking about complicated emacs macros but even the mo...

fix to get smooth scrolling in emacs?

I find myself wanting to use Emacs, mostly because of org-mode, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting used to the jerky scrolling behavior. I know this is a well-known problem/eccentricity of Emacs and that there are various ways to minimize jerkiness when scrolling. But nothing I've tried so far works very well at all. The main sug...