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I am a looking for a good text editor with a simple and powerful macro-recording functionality that should:

  • be open source, and
  • JavaScript/jQuery based.

Optionals:

  • Open multiple files would be great.
  • Syntax highlighting isn't needed but would be great too.

Already know about Ace but it doesn't satisfy the macros thing.

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  • Do you require log-in/remembering what you were doing or anonymous?
    – Nick Dickinson-Wilde
    Commented Mar 22, 2014 at 0:28
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    Also how important is the JS based requirement? (Also curious as to why you want it to be JS/jQuery based?)
    – Nick Dickinson-Wilde
    Commented Mar 22, 2014 at 0:29

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As a matter of fact the textarea in which I am composing this answer supports macros. It can for you too with a little help from wasavi.

The wasavi editor is a vi work-alike that brings a large portion of vi functionality to the web. This includes macros using the usual q binding to start recording, followed by a single character to register the macro under. The next q from command mode terminates the macro recording. To replay it, hit @ followed by the character you used to identify the recording.

You may use this functionality for any text-area on the web using the browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Opera) or as a stand alone web-app. For the source code see the project's Github page.

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