a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax?

a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax? [Solved]

maki 17 May 2008 16:47

What do you think about the creation of a standalone text editor for the wikidot syntax? It would have convenient features such as colouring the different syntax elements, automatic saves, etc, just like any good html text editor. I guess it would not be hard to create, especially on the basis of some good open-source applications of that kind. What do you think?

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Update:

This issue has been solved. The following editors are available:

• http://www.soronlin.org.uk/jedit <jEdit - Soronlin>
• http://www.wdeditor.com <Home - STE> (no syntax highlighting yet)
• http://mytreedb.com/download/treedb/SyntaxMaker.zip <TreeDBNotes SyntaxMaker> for http://www.mytreedb.com/ <TreeDBNotes Free, SoftArtStudio>

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http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:382

Last edited on 17 Feb 2011 22:42 by maki + Show more

Re: a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax?

Socks 17 May 2008 23:28

What would the point be? You can't upload page files, so it wouldn't help.

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/Socks

Re: a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax?

maki 18 May 2008 09:30

The point - easier edition. It is much easier to make a table, having each "row" and "cell" syntax element highlighted in colour. Furthermore you would always have a backup copy of the page syntax.

As for uploading page files - simply copy&paste does the job.

Actually I produce my wikidot pages in an external text editor (KeyNote) which automatically saves what I am doing. If electricity suddenly stops I would have all my work so far, saved. The same would not be true for editing directly on the site. The only shortcoming I experience is that KeyNote doesn't recognize the syntax elements and cannot highlight them in different colours.

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http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:382

Last edited on 21 May 2008 15:30 by maki + Show more

Re: a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax?

Gabrys 21 May 2008 14:21

That would rock!

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Re: a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax?

Fox Lee 03 Jul 2008 06:58

This is a classy idea. I wonder if I can do such a thing for my preferred text editor, EmEditor? It already does convenient highlighting and such for a bunch of languages (html, c++ etc) and I have the feeling you can add more if you know what you're doing…

Re: a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax?

maki 03 Jul 2008 17:13

I recently noticed that my editor of choice - TreeDBNotes (a promising candidate for a successor to Tranglos Keynote) has a "syntax highlighter" plug-in. But I have no expertise to do anything with it. I took a glance at EmEditor, it looks nice, too. I hope the Wikidot team embrace the idea and incorporate the Wikidot syntax into one of those beautiful editors.

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http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:382

Last edited on 03 Jul 2008 17:14 by maki + Show more

Re: a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax?

Nguyen Trong Quoc 21 Jun 2008 02:42

I'm not a fan of coding. So I would prefer a converter that converts, say, MS-word formatting into wikidot formatting. That would enable us to create pages in MS-word, convert it into wikidot formatting, and copy it directly into our wiki.
Is such things possible?

Re: a standalone editor for the wikidot syntax?

RJScar 08 Jun 2009 13:01

Mmm… some time ago, I wrote a bit of VisualBasic Script for MS Word doing this (see here). Not very stylish, but might help… Rafaël