[wp-hackers] GSoC 2013: Application Idea - Making the Code Editor Usable

[Corey Alexander]

Oh yes it does. Well beat me too it but your plugin looks really nice! I'll
have to use it next time I run into wanting to use the built in editor.
Thanks for letting me know though.
On Apr 26, 2013 3:30 PM, "ohad raz" <admin at bainternet.info> wrote:

> my plugin already does most of what you are suggesting.
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-code-editor/
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> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Corey Alexander <coreyja at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey WordPress team,
> >
> > I'm Corey Alexander. I'm a CS major at Rose Hulman Institute of
> Technology.
> > I have been doing web work, mostly in WordPress, for the last 3 years or
> so
> > now. If you want to check out some of the projects I've worked on, I have
> > done most of my work as part of Mad Lab MG, and I have worked on almost
> > every project that is listed on the Mad Lab
> > Portfolio<http://www.madlabmg.com/portfolio/>
> > .
> >
> > If this email is a duplicate, I apologize. Had a problem with sending to
> > the list from an email that wasn't subscribed so sending from my main one
> > this time.
> >
> > Most of the rest of this email is going to be copied and only slightly
> > modified from the blog post I wrote on my application idea. If you want
> to
> > read it there, it is located at
> >
> >
> http://coreyja.com/gsoc-2013-make-the-theme-and-plugin-editor-in-wordpress-usable/
> > .
> >
> > Here is my idea:
> >
> > The project I want to work on isn't one of the ones that is listed on the
> > ideas page, but is one that I have ran into when I've been developing in
> > WordPress quite a bit. Currently I hate doing any development, or even
> > reading code, using WordPress’s built in code editor. There are times
> when
> > I am helping someone else out quick and I can’t get FTP access, or just
> > have to fix something quick. In both of these cases I would like to be
> able
> > to use the built in editor. But currently the built in editor’s usability
> > is so low I do whatever I can to get FTP access and avoid this editor at
> > all costs.
> >
> >
> >
> > Some of my biggest gripes with it currently are:
> >
> >    - The tab key doesn’t work. Un-indented code is really ugly and harder
> >    to maintain.
> >    - Multiple browser tabs to look at multiple different files. A tabbed
> >    editor to have multiple files open at once would be a huge
> improvement.
> >    - Only can view files in the top level folder. Can’t edit CSS files in
> >    the CSS folder, or JS in the JS folder for example. So following good
> >    standards for code management leads to not being able to edit these
> > files
> >    using the built in editor.
> >
> >
> >
> > These are all things that I want to fix in the editor. This will make it
> > more usable and an actual tool, instead of the annoyance I currently view
> > it as. Besides these I also want to add some other features, most are
> > things that would make development easier, but aren’t as necessary as the
> > one’s I listed above.
> >
> >    - Code Coloring. This is probably the most important of these
> features.
> >    Code coloring makes reading code orders of magnitude easier, and is
> >    something I would really love to see in the editor.
> >    - The bare minimum files that should be editable and highlighted are
> >    PHP, CSS and JS. It would be great if these could be expanded to
> >    CoffeeScript, LESS, SCSS and some of the other derived file types.
> >    - Ability to download a zip of the entire theme or plugin. Makes back
> up
> >    easier
> >    - Allow uploading of either individual file, or a big zip that would
> >    simply update the files that are currently there for that plugin or
> > theme
> >
> >
> >
> > I don’t have a timeline in mind yet for the development process, but I
> > wanted to get some feedback from the WordPress core team to see if there
> > you guys think this is a project that would work well for a GSoC project.
> > If so, is there someone who would like to be my mentor for it? Either
> leave
> > a comment on the blog page I linked above or shoot me and email at
> > corey at coreyja.com to give me some feedback on this project or chat about
> > it. Thanks everyone!
> >
> > --Corey A.
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