Contents

• Introduction
• Aim
• Extending

Introduction

CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that provides features commonly found in IDEs (like syntax highlighting and smart indent) to browser-based editors. This product monkey patches Zope PythonScript ZMI edit form to use CodeMirror. It was tested in Chrome, Firefox and IE 9.

Aim

This product exists as a proposal of a feature addition to Zope itself: the author thinks textareas are too uncomfortable for developers to edit their code.

Extending

Including the file ++resource++codemirror/convertTextAreas.js all textareas with class codemirror-python will be converted. If an attribute called onCodeMirrorLoad is found on the textarea DOM element, it will be called with the codeMirror object as parameter.