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[Adam Baxter <voltagex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a note - fairly sure that Notepad++ uses the Scintilla components from
SciTE anyway!

2011/12/21 Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  Really, it has nothing to do with "Windows" as much as just the way
> notepad is written.
>
>  There's not really much in Windows that cares about LF vs CRLF, it's
> just what they use.
>
>  Notepad should have been updated about a century ago. *sigh*
>
>  But that's what we have open source for :
> http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
>
>  G
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) [ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:03 PM
> *To:* Garrett Serack
> *Subject:* Re: [Coapp-developers] Website documentation progress
>
>  I really wish Windows natively used LF instead of CRLF. Or at least
> supported reading both kinds natively... It's kind of annoying that notepad
> can't read them...
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  I've been feverishly trying to write documentation this week ... and at
>> the same time enhancing the DocPad-powered cms engine that's powering the
>> CoApp.org website.
>>
>>  *Layout*
>> Over the last couple of days I've tweaked the layout of the website, and
>> I think it's really starting to come together. Thanks to everyone on IRC
>> who gave their feedback!
>>
>>  *CMS Engine*
>> The site is a statically-generated website that is based off of DocPad,
>> but over the course of the last few days, I've significantly enhanced it
>> with:
>>
>>  - switched to github-flavored-markdown for the markdown processor
>>
>>   - added the missing triple-backtick (```) syntax-highlighting format
>> for color syntax highlighting  of source code blocks (uses an online
>> pygments webservice)  -- this means no javascript in the browser to do
>> syntax highlighting :)
>>
>>  - enhanced the markdown language with a few new items (turning this
>> slowly into what I call 'garrett-flavored-markdown' ):
>>
>>   - image embedding with overflow wrapper so the image gets a scrollbar:
>> *![alt-text](image-url)*
>>
>>  *
>> *
>>
>>   - video embedding, embeds videos with H.264 and webm codecs for HTML5
>> and a fallback to flash:
>>  *%[width,height,posterimageurl,mp4url,webmurl]*
>> *
>> *
>>  - HTML anchor support (for embedding the target of an anchor) :
>> *[text](anchor-id)*
>>  *
>> *
>>  - the ability to smuggle links into color-syntax highlighted code:
>> *≪somecode**≪href≫*
>>  (see the example on the page http://coapp.org/reference/cli.html --
>> click on the --help in the text)
>>
>>
>>  *Stuff to look at!*
>> Please check out the developer articles I've started:
>>
>>
>>  Getting setup with git and github <http://coapp.org/developers/git.html>
>> Setting up the development environment<http://coapp.org/developers/development-environment.html>
>> Check out the source code <http://coapp.org/developers/source-code.html>
>>
>>  and the start of the reference work:
>> Common command-line reference <http://coapp.org/reference/cli.html>
>> ptk.exe <http://coapp.org/reference/ptk.html> -- CoApp 'porting toolkit'
>>
>>
>>  As you can see, I've started to make some 'standards' around what the
>> content looks like, hopefully this will help people start to get a grip on
>> the work that we've been doing.
>>
>>
>>  I'd love your feedback, and even more, I'd love any help you can
>> provide.
>> *
>> *
>> *Playing with the CMS:*
>>
>>  *The only tools you need to play with the CMS engine is a git and a
>> text editor. (Not notepad!)*
>>
>>  You can clone the repository:
>> *git clone **git@xxxxxxxxxx:coapp/new_coapp.org.git*
>>
>>  You can run the embedded mini-server by running the command:
>>  *cd new_coapp.org*
>>  *server.cmd*
>>      - don't worry about any error message right now
>>       - you might get a firewall popup. Say yah, it's ok
>>      - press ctrl-c to stop the server (when you're done, or it does
>> something goofy)
>>
>>  From there, you should be able to see the website in a browser:
>> http://localhost:9778
>>
>>  Modify files in the ./src/ directory and below, and the server will
>> automatically regenerate the site (and beep when it's done)... Lather,
>> rinse, repeat.
>>
>>  If you've been putting off getting involved, now is a good time! Come
>> check out the content (yeah, there's lots of 404s yet!)  Feel free to fix
>> them, put in placeholder pages, fix stuff, and send me a pull request on
>> github!
>>
>>  Turn lousy docs into good ones!
>>
>>  If you have any questions, ping me! Come to the IRC channel, just ...
>> do SOMETHING!!
>>
>>  Garrett
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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