Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by est » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:18 AM UTC

jakiestfu wrote: post #7

est wrote: post #5

Now please add mouse-hover hint box, dropdown list for auto completion and I am sold

Elaborate on the hover hint box, please

Okay,

suppose this line:

    result = someFunction(param1, param2='ok')

mouse over to `someFunction`, a small box shows brief description of function, what it does, how many parameters are required, what does optional parameters do.

It's basically a richer version of

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by fidz » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:21 AM UTC

Just curious who is the person in the background page?

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by tantalor » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:23 AM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #10

> var editor = new Behave({ > var editor = Behave({ Is it a constructor or not?

On further inspection, it must be a constructor.

The second case is incorrect. The function assigns to "this", which would be undefined in strict mode, or the global object. Very bad either way.

Remember kids: objects are your friend.

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by tantalor » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:23 AM UTC

fidz wrote: post #12

Just curious who is the person in the background page?

https://www.google.com/search?q=austin+powers

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by state » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:31 AM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #10

> var editor = new Behave({ > var editor = Behave({ Is it a constructor or not?

I wish it could be var editor = now Behave({

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by jakiestfu » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:42 AM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #10

> var editor = new Behave({ > var editor = Behave({ Is it a constructor or not?

Thank you good sir. It is a constructor, I've fixed the sites

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by evincarofautumn » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:42 AM UTC

You should have the option to make backspace delete a full level of indentation, if soft tabs are on.

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by hilti » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:45 AM UTC

Great landing page. Just add syntax highlighting and it'll be perfect.

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by evoxed » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:49 AM UTC

Hey, this looks handy! I just wrote something kinda similar as part of an ad-hoc UI layer that just had to be done in HTML/JS. At first I was horrified, but by a couple hundred lines in I realized how nice it would feel to finally tame those meager input boxes into full on forces of good. ;)

Re: Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

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Post by chr1 » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:49 AM UTC

nbashaw wrote: post #9

This is awesome. I'm using http://ace.ajax.org/ right now in production and it's a huge heavyweight pain (but still the best thing out there). If only this had syntax highlighting i'd switch in an instant.

Maybe you'll like http://kueblc.github.com/LDT/examples/generic.html? but if you fix undo, add bracket matching, etc it will become huge too.

Also wanted to ask why do you think that ace is a pain? I agree that it's big, but seems to work ok?