Noone uses a 'rich source editor' like CodeMirror?

By sirtet on 22 Jun 2011 at 14:41 UTC

I just started drupal'ing (D7) after using other cms'es and coding Sites using tools like Dreamweaver.

I really miss an enhanced code view on all those web-wysywig editors.
Generally,there seem a few solutions around, namely
codemirror http://codemirror.net/
editarea http://sourceforge.net/projects/editarea/
ace http://ace.ajax.org/

and also some attempts with drupal:
http://drupal.org/node/955390
probably based on
http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13862

i'd like to know why this seems a not too common wish.

writing content, i'd like to stay within my environment, but sometimes need to check some markup, or want to add sth. there.
curretly, i paste to my favorite editor and back, what many ppl do, i guess.
so i have these points in mind:
-have the source highlighted (colorized)
-keep text marked while switching WYSIWYG<->Source
-linenumbers
-maybe indented
-maybe autocomplete

Comments

i found 2 more modules in

sirtet

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commented 27 June 2011 at 13:25

i found 2 more modules in that direction:
http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_codemirror
and
http://drupal.org/project/colorer

both are for D6 only...

I'd like this too

patrickavella commented 29 July 2011 at 15:02

I'm also curious why this doesn't seem to be a common desire. If you know PHP/HTML/etc wysiwygs are terrible to work in. There are a lot of situations where I need to write HTML for my nodes, and many other situations where I'd like to add PHP, but it's painful to write (or edit!!) that code in a textarea.

I've found a chrome extension that allows tabbing in a text area, but that's as far as I've gotten. If anyone has a solution for this please let me know, because it would make my life a lot easier!

Codemirror as an Editor in Wysiwyg

sirtet

German

Switzerland

commented 30 July 2011 at 16:31

here
http://drupal.org/node/274431
is some work done to get CodeMirror as an Editor into Wysiwyg. I installed a dev-version and applied the patch. I could configure CM now, but it shows me a blank box with only linenumbers, not really working yet for me.

Anyways, i hope for a combination that lets me switch between Wysiwyg and CodeMirror.

Maybe it would be fairly easy to port
http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_codemirror
to D7, which is a plugin for TinyMCE...

Well, anything coding is too difficult for me.
So i keep collecting info and show interest.