Text Editor
Rich-text editors , also known as online rich-text editors , are web components that allow users to edit and enter text within a web browser. Rich-text editors are used in numerous ways such as in enhancing your comment input form or as part of a web application that allows entry of user-generated and formatted content.
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Mylyn/WikiText
From Eclipsepedia Mylyn WikiText Mylyn WikiText provides an extensible framework and tools for parsing, editing and presenting lightweight markup , including:
Primary Links Vex - A Visual Editor for XML Vex is a V isual E ditor for X ML that hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a word processor like interface.
Vex - A Visual Editor for XML
Vex has moved from being a component in the WTP Incubator project to being a project on its own in Mylyn Docs. Like all other Eclipse projects Vex has its own home page: eclipse.org/vex . Our project lead is Florian Thienel, currently the 99% of Vex (only you can change this). Last week milestone 8 was released .
Moving Forward – Vex 1.0.0 M8 « eclipse howl
A lightweight markup language is a markup language with a simple syntax , designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor , and easy to read in its raw form. Lightweight markup languages are used in applications where people might be expected to read the document source as well as the rendered output. For instance, a person downloading a software library might prefer to read the documentation in a text editor rather than a web browser.
Lightweight markup language
Markdown is a lightweight markup language , originally created by John Gruber with substantial contributions from Aaron Swartz , allowing people “to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML )”. [ 1 ] The language takes many cues from existing conventions for marking up plain text in email .
Markdown
