If anyone is curious about online editors, I recently wrote about Cloud9's Ace Editor, IBM's Orion, and CodeMirror.
http://endofline.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/3-browser-based-ed...
Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
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Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dropbox does have version control built in, albeit not in the same way which you speak of. Pretty good way to get people unfamiliar with version control to see the utility of it, though :)
Actually no; Dropbox and version control are different ends of the same problem spectrum. Using Dropbox for version control is non-optimal, and Dropbox VC is more backend/invisible to it's use case. Dropbox is about syncing, as fast as possible and in real time - it is designed for multiple computers but only one concurrent use . So it is really for the individual. Versioning is a form of snap shot that is designed t…
Dropbox definitely has version control, you are able to move back and forth between different versions of a single saved document, that's definition enough. It's just not meant for fine grained control like Mercurial or other DVCS. CouchDB has version control, would you ever use that?
Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another "feature" would be the ability to use it without dropbox--save functionality removed. I don't have my dropbox password handy, so the app is completely unusable. (HTML"5" database/ javascript localstorage?)
BTW, I'm the author of this software. So I've been trying to figure out how to save things locally for awhile. I realized that HTML5 has a File System API which in Chrome 9 can FINALLY write to the local SANDBOXED environment. This feature is planned!!
I started using CouchDB to save locally, or anywhere. It seems to be working out well. What are your plans with the future of this ide?
Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#74The problem of editing text files, synching them across many machines, versioning them and sharing them via web or email is I think a well-solved problem.
Even when one or more of the computers is a public machine (ex. in a library)? This would have been great when I was in college and didn't always want to carry my laptop around.
Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#75I'm angry at myself for not thinking about the Dropbox portion of the application. I had already thought that a TextMate-like editor for Chrome would be really nice to have, but I couldn't think of a solution for. If I used traditional saving methods, I couldn't figure out why I wouldn't just use emacs, coda, textmate, etc. The Dropbox portion is what makes this app for me. That
I guess I still don't understand why I wouldn't just use emacs, etc. I edit files in my Dropbox folder with emacs all the time.
At my workplace, the workstations are locked down so much that Dropbox can't be installed. This might be a godsend for me.
Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#76Does it "undo" one keystroke at a time?
Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another "feature" would be the ability to use it without dropbox--save functionality removed. I don't have my dropbox password handy, so the app is completely unusable. (HTML"5" database/ javascript localstorage?)
BTW, I'm the author of this software. So I've been trying to figure out how to save things locally for awhile. I realized that HTML5 has a File System API which in Chrome 9 can FINALLY write to the local SANDBOXED environment. This feature is planned!!
This has potential. I asked for this very thing about two months ago and surely someone is delivering.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1980806
How far do you plan to go with this? You could certainly make a buck or two if, say, you start offering a premium IDE with auto-complete, server-side compilation, etc. Not sure there's a big demand for this. Maybe you could sell this to enterprises and they could just deploy a lots of thin clients--save some cash on powerful workstations--and can log in from anywhere to develop and compile the code server-side and seamlessly deploy. But I'm just thinking out loud now. Best of luck.
Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#78I'm behind a corporate firewall where Chrome isn't allowed, any-one know of an equivalent which will run on Firefox?
As an aside the Chrome Web Store tantalizingly says "Sorry, we don't support your browser just yet. You'll need Google Chrome to install apps, extensions and themes."- are they planning to go cross-browser at some point or just teasing me?
Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#79just a quick question here: why using your standard editor and saving stuff onto the 'Dropbox' folder on the local-machine is not sufficient ?
Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another "feature" would be the ability to use it without dropbox--save functionality removed. I don't have my dropbox password handy, so the app is completely unusable. (HTML"5" database/ javascript localstorage?)
BTW, I'm the author of this software. So I've been trying to figure out how to save things locally for awhile. I realized that HTML5 has a File System API which in Chrome 9 can FINALLY write to the local SANDBOXED environment. This feature is planned!!
FYI, I meant that the user should be able to test out your app without having to enter in any info, even if it means that saving is disabled.