Better File Editor

Adds line numbers, syntax highlighting, code folding, and lots more to the theme and plugin editors in the admin panel.

By Bryan Petty

4.7 (17 ratings)
Version 2.3.1 Active Installs 400+ Updated 10 years ago 16 years old

Description

Adds line numbers, syntax highlighting, code folding, and lots more to the
theme and plugin editors in the admin panel.

This plugin replaces the boring, clunky, and difficult to use theme and plugin
editor with a full-featured code editor using the Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor.

Requirements:

  • Javascript Enabled (will use default editor if disabled)
  • Browsers: Internet Explorer 9+, Chrome 21+, Firefox 10+, Safari 6.0+

Included Themes:

  • Ambiance
  • Chaos
  • Chrome
  • Clouds
  • Clouds Midnight
  • Cobalt
  • Crimson Editor
  • Dawn
  • Dreamweaver
  • Eclipse
  • GitHub
  • idleFingers
  • IPlastic
  • KatzenMilch
  • krTheme
  • Kuroir
  • Merbivore
  • Merbivore Soft
  • Mono Industrial
  • Monokai
  • Pastel on Dark
  • Solarized Dark
  • Solarized Light
  • SQL Server
  • Terminal
  • TextMate
  • Tomorrow
  • Tomorrow Night
  • Tomorrow Night Blue
  • Tomorrow Night Bright
  • Tomorrow Night 80s
  • Twilight
  • Vibrant Ink
  • Xcode

Supported Languages:

  • ABAP
  • ABC Notation
  • ADA
  • ActionScript
  • AppleScript
  • AsciiDoc
  • Assembly x86
  • AutoHotKey
  • BatchFile
  • C9Search
  • C/C++
  • Clojure
  • Cobol
  • CoffeeScript
  • ColdFusion
  • C#
  • CSS
  • Curly
  • D
  • Dart
  • Diff
  • Dot
  • Elixir
  • Elm
  • Erlang
  • EJS
  • Forth
  • FreeMarker
  • Gherkin
  • gitignore
  • Glsl
  • Go
  • Groovy
  • HAML
  • Handlebars
  • Haskell
  • haXe
  • HTML
  • HTML (Ruby)
  • Ini
  • Jade
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • JSON
  • JSONiq
  • JSP
  • JSX
  • Julia
  • LaTeX
  • Lean
  • LESS
  • Liquid
  • Lisp
  • LiveScript
  • LogiQL
  • LSL
  • Lua
  • LuaPage
  • Lucene
  • Makefile
  • MATLAB
  • Markdown
  • MaskJS
  • Maze
  • MySQL
  • MUSHCode
  • Nix
  • Objective-C
  • OCaml
  • Pascal
  • Perl
  • pgSQL
  • PHP
  • Powershell
  • Prolog
  • Properties
  • Protobuf
  • Python
  • R
  • RDoc
  • RHTML
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • SASS
  • SCAD
  • Scala
  • Scheme
  • SCSS
  • SH
  • Smarty
  • snippets
  • Soy
  • SQL
  • SQLServer
  • Stylus
  • SVG
  • Tcl
  • Tex
  • Text
  • Textile
  • Toml
  • Twig
  • Typescript
  • Vala
  • VBScript
  • Velocity
  • XML
  • XQuery
  • YAML

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