Line number handler in recipe editor

[mpotter@…]

Idea comes from: "​Better validation errors" from the Bitten Google Group, specifically the ​third post which was by anatoly techtonik.

Where there is a recipe error Bitten reports the line number and column. Using the current editor it is not always easy to find where this error is.

Suggestions:

• Add line numbers to the recipe editor.
• When there is an error, position the cursor in the editor (minimally) at the reported line and (ideally) column.

[hodgestar]

Does anyone know of a decent Javascript text editing widget that we could include? Obviously it also needs a Bitten-compatible license.

[anatoly techtonik <techtonik@…>]

There is at least one with MIT license at ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995370/html-adding-line-numbers-to-textarea The plugin will be even more awesome with resize feature like in Chrome.

[hodgestar]

More links from techtonik via IRC:

• ​http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/javascript-tutorial-resizeable-textboxes
• ​http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/javascript-controls-resizeable-textbox
• ​http://alan.blog-city.com/jquerylinedtextarea.htm

Osimons says a Jquery plugin is available in Trac 0.12dev so we can look at adding these sort of features for Bitten 0.7 (which is intended to have Trac 0.12+ support).