Ace Code Editor for MODX Revolution - Support Thread

Feel free to leave comments and suggestions for Ace Editor.

All I can say is that I like it; there was a minor issue with the default skin and the developer of Ace was very responsive and got it fixed quickly.

A serious show-stopper in version 1.3.2!

When inserting a MODx tag, upon the first [ Ace immediately adds the closing ] for you, thus resulting in [][ or if you're quick in typing the [[, [][]

Danya, can you compare Ace to CKEditor? I believe you worked on that one as well. Would we want both - as in one for code and one for markup? I see them both as being code.
Thanks!

Ace is a syntax highlighter and code editor, it is by no means a WYSIWYG editor. You can specify it (or CodeMirror) as your resource content editor if you want to, but I use both.

Quote from: sottwell at Dec 30, 2012, 06:50 AM

When inserting a MODx tag...

What do you mean when you say "inserting"? Paste from a clipboard or dragging from an Element Tree? Or typing? I can't reproduce this issue - every time I type '[' I get ']' immediately, no matter how fast I press keys (I can even hold a key on).



Quote from: sottwell at Dec 30, 2012, 06:50 AM

You can specify it ... as your resource content editor ...

No, to use Ace, You have to set `use_editor` setting to false, or uncheck `richtext` resource checkbox. Setting `wich_editor` to Ace has no effect...

Is there a fullscreen-mode for ace? (in Codemirror you can toggle it with F6, it's quite useful in long files)

Yes, you can toggle ace with Ctrl+F11

Thanks for the shortcut.

Unfortunatly, installing and uninstalling ACE just killed my site. Or it was the AjaxManager package I tried also.

I uninstalled both AjaxManager and ACE but I get this warning on top of every manager page and the save-buttons are gone:

Warning: filemtime() [function.filemtime]: stat failed for /www/htdocs/PATH_DELETED_BY_ME/modx2/core/components/ace/elements/plugins/ace.plugin.php in
/www/htdocs/PATH_DELETED_BY_ME/modx2/core/model/modx/modscript.class.php on line 131

After that I cleared the cache (no effect) and re-uploaded the installation files to "upgrade" MODX to the same version (2.2.6), but the issue stays.

Any idea how to fix that?

That was AjaxManager. You should read installation instructions for AjaxManager.
I guess there is still Ace plugin, wich tries to load ace class. Delete plugin manually.