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Better File Editor

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

Screenshots

  • Theme Editor

Installation

  1. Upload the entire better-file-editor folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
    directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Reviews

Ọ̀wàrà 23, 2016
I like the new editor with custom themes, however there is a bug i am not sure if its because of the new version of WordPress i am using 4.6.1, whenever i try to type or delete text it changes the text that is 6 space before the highlighted actual text that i want to edit, this happens also with the other plugin called “Better Code Editor”, so hopefully this gets fixed in the future. If this bug gets fixed i would rate 5.
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Contributors & Developers

“Better File Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Translate “Better File Editor” into your language.

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Changelog

2.3.1 (2015-10-18)

  • Use no-conflict builds of ACE editor.
  • Remove extraneous RequireJS dependency.
  • Add extra namespacing to registered scripts to avoid conflicts.

2.3.0 (2015-10-08)

  • Updated ACE editor to 1.2.0 (2015-07-11).
  • New plugin structure with asset build system.
  • Added support for translations (none provided yet).
  • Improved autoindent for HTML and PHP.
  • New Themes: IPlastic, SQL Server
  • New Modes: Elixir, Elm, LiveScript, SQLServer

2.2.0 (2014-10-01)

  • Updated ACE editor to 1.1.7 (2014-09-20).
  • New Themes: KatzenMilch, Kuroir
  • New Notable Modes: Handlebars, Smarty
  • New HTML syntax checker, and improved PHP syntax checker.

2.1.2 (2013-12-01)

  • Editor enabled based on support for HTML5 Canvas API, which removed
    dependency on jQuery migrate layer for browser sniffing.

2.1 (2013-06-08)

  • Updated ACE editor with new themes and syntax modes.
  • New Themes: Ambiance, Chaos, Terminal, Xcode
  • New Notable Modes: INI, Dart, ActionScript, MySQL, SASS, and HAML.
  • Saves cursor position in file.

2.0 (2012-07-22)

  • Complete rewrite built on Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor, and replacing official
    plugin and theme editors rather than adding extra stand-alone editor.

1.0.1 (2009-12-19)

  • Include local copy of Bespin editor JS rather than hotlinking from Mozilla.

1.0 (2009-06-13)

  • Initial release based on Mozilla’s Bespin editor.