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Drupal 6 - The CKEditor is removing/deleting CODE tags

I had a problem using the CKEditor with Drupal 6 where the CKEditor would not display <code> tags properly in the editor, and would then delete trailing spaces after the <code> tag. After some digging around, I finally found that I needed to comment out the following line in the ckeditor.config.js of my CKEditor module installation:

By Alvin Alexander on November 28, 2012

vim word completion - automatic word completion in the vim editor

vi/vim FAQ: How do I use the vim completion (word completion) feature?

When using the vi/vim editor I'm surprised how many people don't use its built-in vim completion (vim auto complete or vim code complete) feature.

By Alvin Alexander on January 29, 2013

vim backup files - how to move

vim FAQ: How do I move vim backup files to another directory? (Those files that end with the "~" character.)

To move vim backup files to another directory, just use commands like these in your "vimrc" configuration file:

By Alvin Alexander on August 31, 2011

JustWrite - a free, full-screen Mac OS X text editor

If you happen to be in the market for a very simple and free text editor for Mac OS X systems, today I'm releasing the binary version of my "JustWrite" application. While it's still very young, JustWrite has the following socially-redeeming features:

By Alvin Alexander on August 31, 2010

A review of five free Mac text editors (part 1)

I've been using TextMate (a commercial, plain-text editor) for several years on the Mac platform, and while it's an okay text editor, it has never blown me away, and more often than not, it confounds me. That -- and not handling the new Mac Spaces features very well -- has made me start looking at other Mac OS X text editors over the last several weeks, specifically free Mac text editors.

By Alvin Alexander on October 20, 2012

A free Perl editor - Komodo Edit

Free Perl editors FAQ: Can you recommend any good free Perl editors?

I had to get back into some Perl development for a recent project, and when I realized the project was going to take a few days to complete, I decided to look around to see if I could find a good free Perl editor.

By Alvin Alexander on May 18, 2011

A review of five free text editors for Mac OS X (Part 3)

jEdit

jEdit is an open source Java-based text editor that has been around for years. On the positive side it's free, reasonably quick, and most importantly, it has a ton of third-party plugins. All those plugins are what keeps me coming back to look at jEdit from time to time.

By Alvin Alexander on October 20, 2012

A review of five free Mac text editors (part 2)

Smultron

2009-01-06 UPDATE: Smultron is dead; long live Smultron. I just visited the Smultron website, and the author has decided to discontinue development of the project.

Other than the application icon they use, Smultron looks as Mac-like as any text editor I reviewed. While I'll be using Komodo for editing language files (CSS, HTML, others), I'm currently using Smultron as a plain text editor instead of TextMate, and so far, I like it.

By Alvin Alexander on October 20, 2012

How to create and use a JScrollPane in a Java Swing application

Summary: A simple Java JScrollPane source code example.

When you're first learning how to use Java Swing components, like a JScrollPane it can be a little hard to figure out how to get started. To that end I am trying to share several complete Java source code examples that demonstrate how to work with components like these.

By Alvin Alexander on March 20, 2013

How to create a simple Swing HTML viewer with Java

I've been working on writing my own Java text editor on and off for several years now, and one feature I just added to this editor is the ability to view (or preview) HTML and CSS content. Using just the base Swing classes this turned out reasonably well -- I'm not looking to write a complete browser here -- so I thought I'd share some source code to show how this works.

By Alvin Alexander on March 20, 2013
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