Ace: Code in the Cloud
If you're looking to do your coding in the cloud, take a look at Cloud9 IDE which builds on Ace (and Ace includes code from the Bespin/Skywriter project).
Ajax Cloud9 Editor
Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Its goal is to create a web based code editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page and JavaScript application.
Features
- Syntax highlighting
- An optional command line
- Work with huge documents (100,000 lines and more are no problem)
- Fully customizable key bindings including VI and Emacs modes
- Themes (TextMate themes can be imported)
- Search and replace with regular expressions
- Highlight matching parentheses
- Toggle between soft tabs and real tabs
- Displays hidden characters
Ace is a community project with source code hosted on GitHub. It is released under the Mozilla tri-license (MPL/GPL/LGPL) read more…
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