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wesleyzhao
It takes some toggling to get it working just right (change the color theme and get syntax highlighting to work) but after that... it's actually a really useful tool. Doing some collab work helping a friend right meow.
AndrewVos
Upvoted for Super Troopers reference.
[dead] mebigfatguy
collabedit.com seems quite similar, but easier
phzbOx
Searching really hard to find how to change the theme..?
phzbOx
That being said, that's pretty neat actually.
sibsibsib
It's in the bar along the bottom. Very similar to Textmate.
rglullis
To all developers trying to implement a text-editor inside the browser: Do not fuck with the regular text input/textarea elements..

This editor probably has an event handler when the user types quotes on the system - most likely is is trying to insert two quotes and place the cursor in the middle. The problem is, most non-US keyboard layouts use the sequence of "quote + spacebar" to insert a quote.

In the end, your super-smart editor will not allow me (or anyone that does not use a regular US keyboard layout) to type quotes into the damn text-editor.

Enough ranting: it looks like I will have to stay with screen and emacs to have a "collaborative code-editor with syntax highlighting"

darklajid
I read this like ten times and while I agree that messing with input events is ~hard~ I still don't get your explanation.

Out of curiosity, can you explain that problem again? Entering quotes works fine in US layout (yeah, you said that), DE layout (Shift + 2) and HE layout (well - like the US here, no surprise). I lack experience with any other keyboard layout and couldn't follow your explanation, so - what's going wrong?

eitally
Set your keyboard to US International, at which point a double-quote followed by a lower case o gives you o-umlaut: ö. If you want this "o you need to inject a space between the quotation mark and the letter.
rglullis
Ok, I will try to break down the issue. Hope I make it clear.

- My keyboard layout is set to "US, alternative international".

- The thing with that layout, and most layouts intended for languages with accented letters, is that the quote keys are used to add accents to letters. To get the character "é", I first type the character for single quote and follow it with a regular "e". Double quote followed by "e" gets you "ë". The same thing applies for tilde and the "back accent" (Crasis). With that you are able to type pretty much everything: áãàäéëíóõöüúüöçñ.

- Because of this composability, the way to way get a quote (or tilde or crasis) is by typing the key you want and follow it with <spacebar>. If you just press the key for quote, the system will be waiting for the next key to figure out what you actually want.

- Here is the bug, I think:

1) the javascript on the "enhanced text editor" has a handler for the "key-press, code 48" event, that is fired whenever I press the "quotation" key.

2) the handler inserts/manipulates the textarea in any way, by moving the cursor or inserting text in the text area.

3) This manipulation of the text area resets the input buffer, and now there is no sign that I actually pressed the key.

4) when I try to complete my intended input (i.e, when I press <spacebar> to actually get the single-quote char), there is no sign of the previously pressed key, and all I get is a space.

I don't know if this is the exact mechanics of the bug. I just know that this is not the first time that I've tried to type single-quotes in a "web-based text-editor" and I get a space instead.

CountHackulus
This is pretty neat, but I have a few issues with it.

* In the bundle editor, that's not C, that's C++

* There's no "new from template" for C++

* The Open project dialog could be clearer

* When I type "main()" I end up with "main())"

Still, looks promising, and I'll definitely keep tabs on this.

IvarTJ 

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    int main(int argc, char *argv[]) 
    {
        printf("Hello World!\n");
        return 0;
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I refuse to reach for my cursor keys, I switched to Programmer Dvorak for a reason!

Eclipse gets this more right by overwriting inserted right bracket symbols once they are written by the programmer.

aprilchild2
this editor is 4.5 yrs old, no updates since then, total abandonware and was never meant to be anything else than a part of one much larger environment. it stays on that domain solely for my lack of attitude towards getting rid of it:), and partly for a sentiment. still amazes me, people are taking it seriously;).
wesleyzhao
Sorry for taking it seriously :) I was looking for something on the web to help me explain some Java homework to a friend and your tool was literally the best one I could find! Great job, IMHO.
tripzilch
Doesn't support Opera :-(

I don't understand why, it supports all the standards, so this must be non standard coding ..?