Roberto Saccon on Web Technologies

Since I switched to a Mac as my primary development platform I am using aquamacs for all my coding needs. It is a fast native app, looks good, is highly customizable and together with distel it integrates very well with Erlang. Just one thing was giving me a headache

There are two implications which need to be considered before adapting this approach:

An application must contain specific code which can be called by emacs and that code must be able to determine the location of the Emakefile.

Probably not, because open source developers are traditionally often a bit opinated ...

CodeMirror, a very impressive in-browser code editor for Javascript, XML/HTML or CSS (or any language, you just have to plug in a your own parser) made some nice progress in the last months. CodeMirror has no dependency on other frameworks or libraries. If you want to use it in a dojo environment as a dojo compatible widget, here I am gonna share here a little tutorial how to write such a thing

Then your should concatenate and minifiy all the JS files:

util.js, stringstream.js, select.js, undo.js, editor.js => codemirror_iframe.js

Of course an open source framework has no real untold secrets, but digging into the source code can be time consuming and and without in-deep documentation it's difficult to extract the authors thoughts behind it, so I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled upon this links about

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