Turn etherpad into codepad - a collaborative open development enviroment.

Status: Beta - ~bugfixes mostly until 1.0.0 - bug reports welcome.

This etherpad-lite plugin merges functionality of a few simple plugins, and adds tons of functionality on its own.

• File Tree view, open files into pads and save them back.

• Syntaxhighlighting for 92 popular languages - based on highlight.js

• Adds themes, properly implemented with css, and a theme generator

• beutify html/css/javascript code with jsBeutify

• Syntax-check javascipt with jsHint, and display results

• save/commit/push (F2) and play

• It sets some reasonable defaults and customizes buttons

• Admin interface based on adminpads

• Can use a hash instead of a password in the users section of settings.json (ep_hash_auth)

• Authentication user name to username, and custom color

Special URI's:

• /files - filetree
• /log - logview
• /v[/folder]/file - quick view-only with syntaxhighlighting
• /p[/folder]/file - open pad for editing

Currently the following codepad parameters are supported in etherpad's settings.json:

• default theme
• project_path to save files
• log_path for displaying logs (parent dir needs execute right)
• button to open a browser to the project
• action to perform when pushing files
• authentication password-hash, custom colors

The use of authentication and https recommended.

  "ep_codepad": { 
    "theme": "Cobalt",
    "project_path": "/srv/project",
    "log_path": "/var/log/codepad/log",
    "play_url": "http://project.local",
    "push_action": "cd /srv/project && git add . && git commit -m codepad-auto"
  },
  "ep_hash_auth": {
    "hash_typ": "sha512",
    "hash_digest": "hex",
    "allow_namechange": "true"
  },
  "users": {
    "Bob": {"hash": "6c98..66d2","is_admin": true, color: "#ff2222"},
    "Al":  {"hash": "c7r2..b72c","is_admin": true, color: "#2244ff"}
  },

Codepad is designed to work together with fedora "srvctl", an LXC container and virtual server farm managment tool. https://githubub.com/LaKing/Fedora-scripts

Known issues:

• while editing, multiline comments in pads don't get highlighted as expected
• log-view can crash after a while

Please feel free to send comments, bug-reports, ... .. and/or in case of professional, or commercial use please donate to support open source software developers.