ajaxorg/ace

Features

• Text Editor Configurations - Offers a fully customizable browser-based code editor with configurable key bindings, themes, and behaviors.
• Code Editors - Acts as a high-performance code editor component that can be embedded into any web application.
• Multi-Cursor Editing - Supports simultaneous text manipulation across multiple independent selection points and cursors.
• Real-time Code Autocompletes - Features an interactive autocomplete system with trigger characters and inline previews as the user types.
• Syntax Highlighting Engines - Uses a regex-based engine to parse source code into tokens for high-performance semantic coloring.
• Document Models - Maintains an internal document model to decouple text content from the DOM for high-performance rendering of large files.
• Text Document Optimizations - Optimizes browser performance to allow stable editing of text files containing millions of lines.
• Large-Scale Text Rendering - Implements a high-performance rendering system capable of handling documents with millions of lines without browser lag.
• Multi-Cursor Management - Supports simultaneous editing at multiple selection points across the document.
• Syntax Highlighting - Provides a robust engine for parsing and rendering source code with language-specific color-coded syntax styling.
• Text Editors - Ships as an embeddable text editing component that replaces standard HTML text areas with an IDE-like experience.
• Virtual Rendering Engines - Employs virtual rendering to display only the visible lines of a document, enabling the handling of millions of lines.
• Editing and Text Manipulation - Provides automatic indentation, line wrapping, and structural organization to maintain code readability.
• Text Search and Replace - Implements robust search and replace capabilities using both plain text and regular expression patterns.
• Editor Configurations - Provides a centralized configuration system for adjusting editor behaviors and operational preferences.
• Keyboard Shortcut Mappings - Allows mapping of keyboard shortcuts to specific editor actions via predefined or custom keybindings.
• Real-time Text Linting - Provides immediate linguistic analysis and syntax error feedback as the user types.
• Text Selection Utilities - Provides advanced selection capabilities, including whitespace highlighting and multiline search patterns.
• Undo History Managers - Maintains a configurable history stack of undo and redo operations for text edits.
• Web-Based IDEs - Provides the foundational components necessary to build full-featured integrated development environments within a web browser.
• Structural Folding - Enables collapsing and expanding of nested code sections to simplify navigation of complex files.
• Command Registries - Implements a command registry to decouple user input triggers from the editor's internal logic.
• Gutter Metadata Markers - Displays markers and tooltips in the gutter to show metadata or status information for specific lines.
• Undo-Redo Management - Implements a history stack of delta changes to enable undo and redo operations.
• Editor Gutter Components - Provides a synchronized vertical gutter for displaying line numbers, breakpoints, and code folding markers.
• Visual Themes - Provides a mechanism to change the interface's aesthetic appearance through predefined visual themes.
• Rich Text Editors - Embeddable code editor for the web.

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