505511 - Editing context model

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Skywriter Graveyard :: Editor, enhancement)

Description

[Kevin Dangoor]

Actions, editor behaviors, syntax engines, etc. all rely on a notion of an 
editing context. The simplest context is the file type that is being edited, 
and that is what Bespin currently supports.

Other editors, however, support much richer context models (I have heard that 
Espresso is one). Example contexts could include:

* JS in HTML
* wiki markup in a plain text file
* a comment in JS in HTML (could be used, for example, to not automatically 
close apostrophe characters... in JS, ' is likely used as a single quote... in 
a comment, it could be an apostrophe.)

We should implement a good context model that can be used for loading and 
utilizing pluggable behaviors.

Comment 1

[Kevin Dangoor]

ACETRANSITION

The Skywriter project has merged with Ajax.org's Ace project (the full server part of which is their Cloud9 IDE project). Background on the change is here:

http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/2011/01/18/mozilla-skywriter-has-been-merged-into-ace/

The bugs in the Skywriter product are not necessarily relevant for Ace and quite a bit of code has changed. For that reason, I'm closing all of these bugs. Problems that you have with Ace should be filed in the Ace issue tracker at GitHub:

https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues