[IPython-dev] Ace versus CodeMirror
Jason Grout
jason-sage at creativetrax.com
Mon Jan 23 07:33:46 EST 2012
On 1/22/12 3:56 PM, Brian Granger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently, we added the ability for users to edit a single cell in the
> notebook using the Ace editor. I think Fernando and I have been under
> the impression that Ace was a more featureful editor that power users
> would want for serious dev work in the notebook. Here is my take on
> this:
>
> * Ace has better support for keyboard bindings (emacs/vim), although a
> recent version of CodeMirror has improved this situation.
> * Ace has more keyboard actions out of the box, such as indentation of blocks.
If I highlight a block and press tab or shift-tab in
http://codemirror.net/mode/python/index.html, it indents/dedents the
entire block. Is that what you mean?
> * Fernando and others have remarked that CodeMirror was not quite as
> nice as Ace. I have this vague sense, but it is difficult to say
> exactly what is better.
> * Hmm...
>
> Some questions:
>
> * Is Ace really that much better that it is worth us shipping/using it?
> * Do people like the ability to edit a single cell in a
> more-full-window capacity?
See http://codemirror.net/demo/fullscreen.html for an example of this
with CodeMirror. At least, I think that's what you're talking about.
As for search and replace, see this: http://codemirror.net/demo/search.html
Also, CodeMirror technically can actually apply a rst mode
(http://codemirror.net/mode/rst/index.html) just inside of docstrings,
though I don't know if the mode overlay is written yet. That would be
cool, though. I looked into writing it a long time ago, but haven't yet
and likely won't have time in the near future.
Thanks,
Jason
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