Use gvim to edit text areas and get it to use javascript.vim syntax file

Question

I have had a lot of trouble with javascript and editting files via apex's "javascript" sections in the page.
The font in firefox did not distinguish various braces well enough for me. I kept accidentally mixing curly braces and parens... And I would now and then put the plsql concatenate operator || instead of the javascript +. Bleah! There are SO many ways to completely break javascript. And the whole javascript herd goes down when just one little function anywhere in there has an errant brace or quote. So I started resenting not using my customary text editor gvim. I have to have this stuff colorized and have showmatch turned on!
So anyway I found that you can edit textareas with gvim, I don't know if this is commonly known or not so
I thought I'd mention it. Or you can use whatever editor you want.
I only tried this on windows but theoretically it works on other operating systems modulo you
adjusting the shell details appropriately.
First of all install the"It's all text!' firefox extension and restart firefox.
then create a batch file something like this:
(NB: don't call a batch file the same name as an executable. That can cause pesky loops :-)
gvimrun.bat:
c:\vim\vim73\gvim.exe %1 -c "set filetype=javascript"
Note the pathname to gvim.exe needs to be customized. Note the parameter for passing the first argument along. (%1) The set filetype is telling it effectively to use the c:\vim\vim73\syntax\javascript.vim file.
so then when you bring up your page in apex , when you put the mouse cursor right below the
down arrow of the vertical scrollbar on the rhs of the textarea, you should see a little blue button
that says "edit". Then right click and choose preferences. Direct it to your batch file.
And if all is well it will work and invoke gvim with syntax coloring. Which makes it just a tiny bit less likely to really flub it.
Now if anyone else wants to pick up the baton and figure out how to get more than one syntax
in effect such as javascript and jquery? I did find a jquery.vim file out there. ...
Now that we know how to do this if someone knows some really super great javascript /jquery
editor that might be way better than gvim I would definitely consider that! Javascript is easy to screw up
Edited by: lake on Jan 2, 2011 11:34 AM

Answer 1

Hi Mathan. Here is something i have trying to do. This vi does not write it correct... and have I done something wrongly or "stupidly" in code
Problems:
-Second row is inroccet
-If i know that device returns array where is 10 elements. Can I trust that and just return 10 elements from array and changed it to string?
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I think hardest in labview coding is that you dont know what kind component you should use and what is the right way to use them.
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