Better File Editor

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Adds line numbers, syntax highlighting, code folding, and lots more to the
theme and plugin editors in the admin panel.

Author:Bryan Petty (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.9
WordPress version tested:4.3.1
Plugin version:2.3.1
Added to WordPress repository:13-06-2009
Last updated:18-10-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:94
Rated by:17
Plugin URI:https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-file-edi...
Total downloads:39 842
Active installs:600+
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Adds line numbers, syntax highlighting, code folding, and lots more to the theme and plugin editors in the admin panel.

This plugin replaces the boring, clunky, and difficult to use theme and plugin editor with a full-featured code editor using the Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor.

Requirements:

  • Javascript Enabled (will use default editor if disabled)
  • Browsers: Internet Explorer 9+, Chrome 21+, Firefox 10+, Safari 6.0+

Included Themes:

  • Ambiance
  • Chaos
  • Chrome
  • Clouds
  • Clouds Midnight
  • Cobalt
  • Crimson Editor
  • Dawn
  • Dreamweaver
  • Eclipse
  • GitHub
  • idleFingers
  • IPlastic
  • KatzenMilch
  • krTheme
  • Kuroir
  • Merbivore
  • Merbivore Soft
  • Mono Industrial
  • Monokai
  • Pastel on Dark
  • Solarized Dark
  • Solarized Light
  • SQL Server
  • Terminal
  • TextMate
  • Tomorrow
  • Tomorrow Night
  • Tomorrow Night Blue
  • Tomorrow Night Bright
  • Tomorrow Night 80s
  • Twilight
  • Vibrant Ink
  • Xcode

Supported Languages:

  • ABAP
  • ABC Notation
  • ADA
  • ActionScript
  • AppleScript
  • AsciiDoc
  • Assembly x86
  • AutoHotKey
  • BatchFile
  • C9Search
  • C/C++
  • Clojure
  • Cobol
  • CoffeeScript
  • ColdFusion
  • C#
  • CSS
  • Curly
  • D
  • Dart
  • Diff
  • Dot
  • Elixir
  • Elm
  • Erlang
  • EJS
  • Forth
  • FreeMarker
  • Gherkin
  • gitignore
  • Glsl
  • Go
  • Groovy
  • HAML
  • Handlebars
  • Haskell
  • haXe
  • HTML
  • HTML (Ruby)
  • Ini
  • Jade
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • JSON
  • JSONiq
  • JSP
  • JSX
  • Julia
  • LaTeX
  • Lean
  • LESS
  • Liquid
  • Lisp
  • LiveScript
  • LogiQL
  • LSL
  • Lua
  • LuaPage
  • Lucene
  • Makefile
  • MATLAB
  • Markdown
  • MaskJS
  • Maze
  • MySQL
  • MUSHCode
  • Nix
  • Objective-C
  • OCaml
  • Pascal
  • Perl
  • pgSQL
  • PHP
  • Powershell
  • Prolog
  • Properties
  • Protobuf
  • Python
  • R
  • RDoc
  • RHTML
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • SASS
  • SCAD
  • Scala
  • Scheme
  • SCSS
  • SH
  • Smarty
  • snippets
  • Soy
  • SQL
  • SQLServer
  • Stylus
  • SVG
  • Tcl
  • Tex
  • Text
  • Textile
  • Toml
  • Twig
  • Typescript
  • Vala
  • VBScript
  • Velocity
  • XML
  • XQuery
  • YAML

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