#1562 - Replace EditArea with Ace Editor

By Chris Graham
Added 7th Feb 2014, 7:08 PM
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Identifier	#1562
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Replace EditArea with Ace Editor
Status	Completed
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	core
Description	EditArea has not been maintained for a long time, and our implementation is manually patched with numerous unofficial fixes, and still getting buggier with each new IE version. Meanwhile Mozilla's efforts have galvanised into Ace Editor, and there's a lot of industry support. Ace Editor is an excellent, vastly superior solution, so we should go forward with that.
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Related to	#2042 - Add Ace Editor syntax highlighting
Funded?	No

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By Guest posted 31st Jan 2015, 2:20 PM

Ace and CodeMirror are the clear leaders in editors now.

http://ace.c9.io/
http://codemirror.net/

As Ace has massive backing behind it, and a long history that has clearly stabilised against an impressive and active Open Source project, this is what I think we should go with.

By Guest posted 2nd Feb 2015, 3:07 PM

Okay, let me know when it's time to move forward on this one

By Guest posted 2nd Feb 2015, 5:04 PM

Ideally I'd like to do it alongside #1753. When I originally created this issue, the landscape was still a mess -- but Ace has really taken off now.

By Guest posted 8th Mar 2016, 7:13 PM

Finally, this one is implemented. It is on github in the feature__code_editing_update branch, which will be merged in for v11, which will be a relatively short development cycle. Thank you for the sponsorship Rishi, and sorry for the huge lead time. We're getting there though!

#1562 - Replace EditArea with Ace Editor

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