A editor plugin for textareas for code editing with syntax-highlight and more

A free editor for source code written in javascript. (That is no way a WYSIWYG editor). This editor is designed to edit souce code files in a textarea. The main goal is to allow text formatting, search and replace and real-time syntax highlight (for small text).

This editor is free and freely distributable (released under LGPL and Apache license, choose one). All the creator Christophe Dolivet asks is that he receive credit for his work. he will also enjoy to receive mail to tell if you 're using it, just in order to have an idea of how much this editor is used.

MAIN FEATURES

• Easy to integrate, only one script include and one function call
• Tabulation support (allow to write well formated source code)
• Search and replace (with regexp)
• Customizable real-time syntax highlighting (currently: PHP, CSS, Javascript, Python, HTML, XML, VB, C, CPP, SQL, Pascal, Basic, Brainf*ck)
• Word-wrap support
• Auto-indenting new lines
• Line numerotation
• Multilanguage support (currently: Croatian, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese)
• Possible PHP gzip compression (compress the 12 core files to one file of ~20Ko)
• Allow multiple instances
• Full screen mode
• Possible plugin integration
• Possible save and load callback functions
• Possible dynamic content management
• Can work in the same environment than "protype" and "mootools"'s like libraries.

CURRENT LIMITATIONS

• automatic focus on the textarea on page load.
• slow when editing huge files (javascript is not a fast language).
• only on syntax language at the same time (no html and php syntax highlight at the same time).

COMPATIBILITY

• IE 6 to 8
• Firefox 1.5 to 3
• Safari 3 to 4
• Opera 9
• Chrome 1, 2