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Behave.js - A JavaScript Library To Add IDE-Style Behavior To HTML Text Areas

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behave.js is a lightweight javascript library which allows you to augment plain html text areas to have ide-like behavior.

behave.js includes several features as listed below:

  • replace tab – pressing the tab key will insert a tab character in the text area instead of cycling through control on the page.
  • soft tabs – instead of using the tab character to denote tabs, spaces are used instead, with the ability to set the soft tabs size.
  • auto open - behave.js automatically inserts closing counterpart characters for ( { [ “ and ‘ .
  • overwrite closing characters – if you type a closing character immediately preceding the same character, one of the duplicate characters is deleted.
  • auto strip – if the cursor is placed between two paired characters, pressing backspace to delete the first character results in both characters to be deleted.
  • auto indent – using this option allows behave.js to auto indent your code.

naturally, all of the above options are optional and can be activated and  deactivated as required.

requirements: none
demo: http:/ / jakiestfu. github. com/ behave. js/
license: mit license

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