Ace: an Open-source Code Editor for the Web
What is Ace?
Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a browser based editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse.
It can be easily embedded in any web page or JavaScript application. Ace is developed as the primary editor for Cloud9 IDE and the successor of the Mozilla Skywriter (Bespin) Project.
Features
- Rich documentation that include how-to, guides, and tutorials
- Automatic number lines
- Syntax highlighting for over 120 languages (TextMate/Sublime Text.tmlanguage files can be imported)
- Over 20 themes (TextMate/Sublime Text .tmtheme files can be imported)
- Automatic indent and outdent
- An optional command line
- Handles huge documents (four million lines seems to be the limit!)
- Fully customizable key bindings including vim and Emacs modes
- Search and replace with regular expressions
- Highlight matching parentheses
- Toggle between soft tabs and real tabs
- Displays hidden characters
- Drag and drop text using the mouse
- Line wrapping
- Code folding
- Multiple cursors and selections
- Live syntax checker (currently JavaScript/CoffeeScript/CSS/XQuery)
- Cut, copy, and paste functionality
License
Copyright (c) 2010, Ajax.org B.V.
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. - Neither the name of Ajax.org B.V. nor the
names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
