[Scottish] Anybody know a good text editor which can run in a browser

Philip Ward PhilWard at bigfoot.com
Wed May 12 13:44:00 BST 2004


If your server can be setup to run webmin then the filemanager section 
of webmin contains a java editor that reads and saves directly onto the 
server.

Phil.

Ben Thorp wrote:

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>Mozilla was floating a rich text editor demo about
>(http://mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/) - I'm not sure if this is what you
>are after, but you never know.
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>Of course - you could always surf in Emacs.........
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>Ben Thorp
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>scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote on 11-05-2004 23:14:32:
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>>Hi all,
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>>The subject says it all really - I want to be able to edit some text
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>(code
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>>actually) from a browser and post the data back to the server. I guess
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>this
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>>is the kind of thing which Java should be good for but typing 'Java code
>>editor applet' into Google turns up a LOT of noise (mostly tools for
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>editing
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>>java applets - not java applets for editing text).
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>>There are no end of WYSIWYG editors (actually most of them are buttons
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>stuck
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>>in front of the editor buit-in to Microsoft's IE) but I really want to
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>edit
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>>PHP and javascript.
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>>I did find netedit which is little more than a textarea with buttons on
>>(http://www.chipsoftinc.com/products/netEdit/). ViD looked promising
>>(http://www.oursland.net/vid/) but I don't get the cursor in the right
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>place
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>>in any of the browsers I've tried.
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>>TIA,
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>>Colin
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