What are the available themes for Enthought Canopy Editor? The default one I find via 'preference.ini' is 'linux'. I am looking for a black(ish) front end.
The only acceptable values are 'lightbg', 'linux' or 'nocolor' none of which provides a dark background.
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Are there any emacs or VIm clones (on any platform or browser) that work with all the standard plugins/"modes" for emacs or vim and also provide a significant amount of "visual" code navigation, traversing, editing, etc?
"Visual" means using buttons or trees or menus that you click with a mouse, or some presentation of code/data beyond what can be done in console emulation.
Additionally, "visual" editors should have some amount of integration between the visual features and the standard api of the underlying console-based editor; for example, (this might be terrible in practice) a way for "org mode" to expose some of its commands as buttons or drop downs.
xemacs or gvim should probably suit your needs. I know xemacs, at least, is fairly like what you describe with buttons and menus, though I don't think it really presents code any differently from the console version of emacs.
Links to each:
http://www.xemacs.org/
http://www.vim.org/download.php
The new visual theme picker is awesome! Thank you! We can finally "dim the lights". Although, black and, specially, blue fonts, on a dark background, are hard on the eyes. Is there some sort of editable CSS like file that we can tune?
The quick answer is to look in the files in this folder:
plugins\com.google.dart.tools.deploy_0.2.8.r15948\themes
(where r15948 is the version of the editor)
This contains a series of xml files - one per theme, where you can edit the relevant color values.
If you look at Preferences >> Visual Theme, it says:
Download more themes or create your own on eclipsecolorthemes.org. It also lets you import themes.
Hannes Rammer built an open source tool for this
https://github.com/HannesRammer/Rainbow (GitHub)
http://pub.dartlang.org/packages/rainbow
also available online at
https://rainbow-dart.appspot.com/
Is there a way to just run the matlab (7.9.0) editor and not the rest of the "desktop" on linux?
This can't be done directly, because the editor stopped being a stand-alone executable many releases ago. It is now launched as a separate Java window from the Matlab desktop. However, you could try hiding the desktop once the editor is displayed, using the following simple code snippet:
com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance.getMainFrame.hide % to hide desktop
com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance.getMainFrame.show % to show desktop
Note that if your editor is docked to the desktop, it will be hidden together with the desktop, so be careful...
No, this is no longer possible since r2007a.
You can get Matlab syntax highlighting for emacs and vi, though.
On my windows machine, I can start MATLAB with the -nodesktop option, then once in the command prompt, I start only the editor with edit.
Im not sure if this is different in terms of memory space used, but this way you only get the editor and the command prompt (no auto-completion though)
You can add Matlab syntax highlighting to Kate via a plugin. I don't know about gedit, but there's probably an addon for that as well.
For a school project i need to write or use a online programming editor. It is a part of a bigger project. I thought of a java application, php/html/javascript or flash.
I have a couple of things i could do:
Find a good working application and edit it so it works with the rest of the project
Find good parts for a editor and make it working my self (syntax highlighter, auto-indent, autocompletion, etc.)
Combination of those two
Does anybody know a good editor or have tips for this project or a editor?
Thanks for reading,
Leon
For the syntax highlighting and basic editing part, check out my recent question Textarea that can do syntax highlighting on the fly?
Solutions presented there:
CodeMirror
Bespin (Mozilla only, but great)
For the rest - autocompletion etc. - ... Check out the Wikipedia article Comparison of JavaScript-based source code editors
Interested to see what other suggestions come up.
Bespin comes to mind. Though it might be too bleeding edge, depending on how the rest of the project is built/meant to be used (but hey, programmers love bleeding edge).
If you decide to use PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript, see GeSHi for syntax highlighting.
I have a side project developed with ACE.
It connects to your server through SFTP and allows you to create new files,read and edit all from your browser with your file tree at sidebar.
Demo at TePe
Code at Github Repo
I found Cobalah Editor it's also built on CodeMirror but with some customization. There are some themes available we can set, increase or decrease font size.
What Windows code editors allow the use of elastic tabstops, either natively or through a plugin?
I know about a gedit plugin, but it only works on Linux.
Code Browser may be the first for windows. I would love to see this feature as a plugin for other editors as well.
I did quite a bit of googling trying to find this answer. There are plenty of people asking for it:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=414610&cid=21996944
http://www.arguingwithmyself.com/archives/75-the-biggest-feature-your-editor-is-missing
http://intype.info/blog/screencast-parser-in-editor/#comment-221
http://codewords.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/eclipses-achilles-heel/
just to name a few...
so I don't think one exists yet, sorry :(
Code Browser supports elastic tabstops, but it appears to be the only thing for Windows that currently supports it. Unfortunately, it has an unusual UI which may render it unsuitable for multi-person projects, and may even make it difficult for you to use even if no other editors are involved.
According to the elastic tabtops website, he's working on plugins for eclipse and Visual Studio 2010 (though the Eclipse plugin is stalled pending a bugfix, and jedit should support elastic tabstops in an upcoming version.
Finally, though this probably isn't an option, you could try running an x server (such as Cygwin/X or Xming on your Windows computer and ssh into a Linux client (either a virtual machine or another computer) to run Gedit. This approach has many problems though: you need to keep your files on a separate computer (perhaps using Dropbox to keep them in sync), X over SSH is notoriously slow, and you need either another computer or a virtual machine.
XMLQuire is an XML editor developed for windows to showcase virtual formatting. This concept goes a step further than elastic tabstops, indentation is simply a function of the position of the preceding line-feed character and the nesting level and context assessed by the parser:
It's the XML parser that determines the nesting level and therefore the required indentation, there's no reformat key or tab key to press, the XML formatting just reflows as you edit, drag and drop etc.
This means that XML is always properly indented, but without leading tabs or spaces. The concept should also work for more conventional code (except for languages like F# that exploit whitespace), but this has not yet been tried out.
Note that, unlike elastic tabstops, virtual formatting only works from the left-margin and only uses the parser context. The parser context is more than just about nesting level though, factors such as mixed content, node-type, length of parent element name and attribute name all come into the equation. This allows alignment of attributes and attribute values that occur on new lines also (as shown).
Word-wrapped text naturally just fits to the indentation scheme. If further text formatting is required then space characters are added by the user in the conventional way.
As with elastic tabstops there's a potential issue when virtually formatted text is opened in a more conventional editor. However, because no characters have been added for XML formatting (it was all virtual), conventional editors can simply apply conventional formatting according to the settings for that editor, uses tabs or spaces.
Here's a elastic tabstop plugin for Visual Studio 2010 by ferveo (Ramunas Geciauskas):
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ccff2b55-201f-4263-aea5-3e66024d6c0e
Another option is jedit which has already added support for elastic tabstops. It is available on Windows, Linux, OS X, and Unix.
The problem is that only a few toolkits/platforms have text widgets that offer the ability to set non-uniform tabstops on different lines. To my knowledge, those toolkits/platforms are Java Swing (used by the demo on the elastic tabstops page), GTK (used by Gedit and the Gedit plugin), and apparently the new version of Visual Studio (VS 2010).
Expect to (eventually) see more developments on all of those platforms.
Textadept has an elastic tabstop plugin.
Atom also has a plugin.