sacripant / tom_write_editor

Ace Editor for Textpattern write tab

Tom Write Editor

Tom Write Editor is a texpattern plugin that adds a distraction free writing environment for the Textpattern write tab with some advanced features. It's an editor for geek writers!

Install

1. Copy the tom-WE folder directly in the textpattern folder.
2. Install and activate the tom_write_editor_v*.txt plugin from the Textpattern plugin tab.

Usage

For a new article, the best practice is to enter Title and Sort and display informations (section + category) of the article, select Draft as Status and Save.

Click on the button available nearby the Body label to open the editor and start writing.

Basic Ace editor features

Tom-WE uses Ace Editor (a Javascript Editor), synchronized with the body textarea. Ace editor offers some additional features to textarea such as:

• Tabs / indent.
• Simple textile syntaxic coloration.
• Duplicate / move lines or part of text.
• Find / replace
• Macros
• Snippets
• etc.

Some specifics features for Textpattern

• Display directly from editor Article/images/files/links tab via keyboard shortcuts or buttons in a right panel.
• Insert a code snippet to editor via drag & drop from an opened Article/images/files/links tab
• Add custom Snippets.
• Save your article with ctrl-S command-s
• See a live preview of your article (the preview is automatically refreshed when you save).

Change Editor prefs

Editor preferences are stored in a prefs-default json file. Please don't change this file. You risk to loose your changes after updated this plugin. A blank prefs-user json file is dedicated to fit your needs.

Just copy-paste preferences object you want to change and upadate values.

Example

You use rah_knots plugin that already add a keyboard shortcuts to save your article. Just overwrite Editor save shortcut using false in the prefs-user file

{
	"bindKey" : {
		"save" : false
	}
}

Add custom snippets

Ace editor comes with some snippets. But you can add custom snippets in the additional-snippets json file.

Example

[
	{
		"name" : "txp_img",
		"tabTrigger" : "timg",
		"content" : "<txp:image id='${1:id}' />"
	}
]

tom_write_editor's Issues

A small problem.

Tested in 4.7dev, as more and more input content, the cursor and the content will be longer and longer distance.