[ale] Editing perl in a textarea

[meuon at geeklabs.com (Mike Harrison)]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> Totally strange request.  
> 
> We currently offer a way to allow our users to upload scripts to the
> database and edit those scripts via a simple <textarea>
> 

1. You are insane, (letting users write code online..)
   (and I've commited worse sins..)

2. I've done some amazing things with FCKeditor, 
   although it's HTML specific, it's proof you can do
   some good things fairly easily. It might be hackable, 
   and there may be better editors.. 

> One idea is to have a textarea that uses JavaScript be a better editor.
> What would be really nice is Syntax highlighting.  I've seen some
> examples on the web but they are for Rich Text Editors.  Scripts are
> written in Rich Text.