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by drivebyacct2 5156 days ago
I tried to compare CodeMirror, Ace and Orion a while back. Orion... well, it certainly feels like it's made by the Eclipse team. The splash page is flashy, but Orion itself looks and feels terribly clunky.

I think Ace (part of Cloud9) looks nicer and as far as I could tell, did everything Orion does. It also will import Git repos. Did you find anything that Orion does particularly well or better than besides Git repos?
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toni 5156 days ago
I agree that Cloud9 looks very stylish compared to Orion. One thing i like about Orion is comment and code folding features. I also liked how easy it was to just download and run Orion, as opposed to "building" cloud9 with all the dependancies and such.

But yeah, if you appreciate beauty, certainly going with cloud9 is the obvious choice.

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drivebyacct2 5156 days ago
Cloud9's repo includes pre-built binaries, I've never built cloud9 personally. And both Ace and CodeMirror support code-folding.

I don't mean to nitpick, I'm working on something similar to these (with some important differences) and I would like to pick the "best" core editor. Like I said, is there anything else that Orion does better? I don't care about appearance, they're basically all customizable to an extent that they can be made it look identical. And for the most part, they all seem to support the same features (obviously CodeMirror is missing things like Git repos because it's only the browser-side of things)

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