[ale] Editing perl in a textarea - EDIT

[Christopher Fowler]

Sorry.

s/Scripts are written in Rich Text./Scripts are not written in Rich
Text./g



On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:39 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Totally strange request.  
> 
> We currently offer a way to allow our users to upload scripts to the
> database and edit those scripts via a simple <textarea>
> 
> Screen Shot:
> http://buford.linxdev.com/edit.png
> 
> 
> Things like tab do not work because on the browser they take you out of
> the edit window. 
> 
> One idea is to have a textarea that uses JavaScript be a better editor.
> What would be really nice is Syntax highlighting.  I've seen some
> examples on the web but they are for Rich Text Editors.  Scripts are
> written in Rich Text.  
> 
> Anyone here have any neat ideas I could implement to make the <textarea>
> a better editor?  I was not intending on ppl using it often but myself
> has used it quite a bit.  I have an interest in making it better.
> 
> The system supports storage of Perl, Python or Other.  All those types
> do is to give a hint to the master execution script of what type of
> script it is.
> 
> 
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