Title: Jimmy Editor
Author: Kenta Ishii
Published: <strong>Aprel 17, 2017</strong>
Last modified: Aprel 26, 2018

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Jimmy Editor

 By [Kenta Ishii](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kenjmk7r9merchant/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jimmy-editor.1.0.4.zip)

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## Description

Regular Expression Search and Replace on WordPress Editor. Plus, it’s a suggestion
that you can have freedom of making Web Browser Based Applications (Web Apps). Movable
Graphical Interfaces in Web browsers, I called it as «Sticker Box», makes your plot
for Web Apps to be layout free and improve its usability. In this plugin, «Sticker
Box» is used as a bunch of editor tools, «Lines Box», «Search Box» and «Style Box».
This tools gives you how well «Sticker Box» works in Web browsers.

#### Instruction

Jimmy Editor is a plugin for patching default editors of WordPress. The beginning
of this plugin was from my thought, «how can I use the tab key to insert a indent
on Post Editor («Text» mode) as well as Plugin and Theme Editor?» This is resolved
by «post-editor-patch.js», because this issue is derived from ID naming for «textarea»
tag. In addition, I tried to make some editorial functions: «Line number detection»,«
search, replace and delete of the word in the text» and «style changer for the text
area» are considered. Plus, I also considered some movable interface for these functions
on Web browsers. I named my movable interface to «Sticker Box». It’s not only like
the window system on your PC, but able to work on your tablet or phone. I can say
that my movable interface is making compatibility between mouse pointers and touching
devices, because my movable interface is using universal trigger, «mousemove» which
used to occur on many touching panels on mobile devices, but not all, to make compatibility
with traditional mouse system on PC.

Web Browser Based Applications (Web Apps) has a good key to the future because its
compatibility has better than Computer Based Applications (Native Apps). If You 
make one Web App, your Web App works on every browser in every platform. But it’s
ideal — many developers are trying this, then finding some issues — and browsers
are growing their performances. In fact, it’s a heavy loader, a big owner of memory
in your computer. Because computers are having big memory and good speed these days,
it’s time to open the door to the future of Web Apps. I’m now trying to make ideal
Web App!

#### Copyright

The Jimmy Editor, A WordPress Plugin, Copyright 2017 Kenta Ishii
 Jimmy Editor is
distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

## Screenshots

[⌊Displaying Lines and Columns on Lines Box with folded "Sticker Box".⌉⌊Displaying
Lines and Columns on Lines Box with folded "Sticker Box".⌉[

Displaying Lines and Columns on Lines Box with folded «Sticker Box».

[⌊Using of Search Box with Regular Expression, "/load.*/i".⌉⌊Using of Search Box
with Regular Expression, "/load.*/i".⌉[

Using of Search Box with Regular Expression, «/load.*/i».

[⌊Using of inserting tab indents to selected lines on Lines Box.⌉⌊Using of inserting
tab indents to selected lines on Lines Box.⌉[

Using of inserting tab indents to selected lines on Lines Box.

## Installation

From «Plugins» of your admin page, just search and install «Jimmy Editor». Make 
sure to activate «Jimmy Editor» in «Installed Plugins», a «Plugins» sub menu.

You can download and test the latest version of this plugin from GitHub public repository.
[https://github.com/JimmyKenMerchant/jimmy-editor/](https://github.com/JimmyKenMerchant/jimmy-editor/)

In my experience, wp_enqueue_script where deps as array(‘jquery’) was wrong for 
adding scripts of jQuery on both the normal page and the admin page. By typing «
true» on the last argument of wp_enqueue_script, the script will be on the footer.
This may be good for your scripts of jQuery because jQuery usually handles HTML 
DOM (Document Object Model) which needs to be loaded.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

From «Plugins» of your admin page, just search and install «Jimmy Editor». Make 
sure to activate «Jimmy Editor» in «Installed Plugins», a «Plugins» sub menu.

You can download and test the latest version of this plugin from GitHub public repository.
[https://github.com/JimmyKenMerchant/jimmy-editor/](https://github.com/JimmyKenMerchant/jimmy-editor/)

In my experience, wp_enqueue_script where deps as array(‘jquery’) was wrong for 
adding scripts of jQuery on both the normal page and the admin page. By typing «
true» on the last argument of wp_enqueue_script, the script will be on the footer.
This may be good for your scripts of jQuery because jQuery usually handles HTML 
DOM (Document Object Model) which needs to be loaded.

  Tutorial

I. Brief

Touch or click Magenta Label on «Sticker Box», then you touch another point or move
your mouse. You can see the movable menu, «Sticker Box». Stick it where you want,
by touching or clicking Magenta Label again. You can hide «Sticker Box» by touching
or clicking Cyan Triangle. You can reshow «Sticker Box» by touch or click your text
area. Light Cyan Label is its text, and if you touch or click it, «Sticker Box» 
will show Function. White Label is a input area where you can write parameters of
functions on «Sticker Box». Yellow Label is a button to command Function.

II. Lines Box

Touch or click your text area, then you can know where the caret in your text is
placed on. Type the line number and/or the character number on White Label and touch
or click «Go» or press Enter so that your caret moves where you want, e.g., typing«
20:6» means your caret moves to the 20th line and the 6th character of the line.
Typing «3» means the caret moves to the 3rd line and its beginning.

Touch or click «Top» to take your caret to the top of your text area.

Touch or click «Last» to take your caret to the bottom of your text area.

Select the range of the text, then touch or click «+>» to insert tab indent.

Select the range of the text, then touch or click «<-» to reduce tab indent.

III. Search Box

Change Command by touching or clicking «Select» which toggles «Search» and «Replace».

On «Search»: Type your target word on the «Search?» White Label.

On «Replace»: Type your target word on the «Search?» White Label, your demand word
on the «Replace?». If you want to delete a word, make sure not to type any word 
on the «Replace?».

Because your target word is based on Regular Expression, in several cases, you need
to write the word with the rule of Regular Expression, e.g., if you want search «*»,
write it with escape character such as «*», and if you want search two spaces, write«\
s\s». Also see below described for Regular Expression. Back reference can be used.

Then touch or click «Go» or press Enter.

If «Back» is active, you can undo these commands. «Back» is only up to 40 times 
because of saving memory loading. Replacing and Deleting reduce the limit of storing
memory for «Back». If you click or touch your text area, «Back» is deactivated and
cleaned past activities.

This Search Box is searching the word by JavaScript’s Regular Expression. Type your
search word by the rule of Regular Expression without delimiters, and select «m»(
multi-lines modifier for use «^», «$» on each lines), «i» (ignore cases), and/or«
g» (global).

IV. Style Box

Each current status is indicated on White Label. The top is font color, the middle
is font size and font weight, the bottom is background color.

On Top and Bottom: Type color code by Hexadecimal style (e.g. «#89abcd») or just
as displayed [e.g. «rgb(123,213,132)»] to change font and background color.

On Middle: Type font size and font weight. Connect these by one colon, e.g, «14px:
bold» means font size will be 14px and font weight will be bold (typically shows«
700» numerically as a result). Typing «14px» means font size will be 14px and font
weight will not be changed. Typing «:400» means font size will not be changed and
font weight will be 400.

Then touch or click «Change» or press Enter.

V. Position and Style Saving

Positions of Boxes and the style changed by Style Box will be saved. But these have
limitation. If you close your browser or current window, saved positions will be
erased.

VI. Stop Default Click Events when «Sticker Box» Moving is on Active

When any Box has been moving by clicking Magenta Label, and Cyan Triangle has been
changed to Square, default click events will be stopped for usability of moving «
Sticker Box», particularly on touching devices to stop opening links to other pages.
If you want retrieve default click events, click Cyan Square of any «Sticker Box»
to change to Triangle.

  Compatibility

I. Web Browsers
 Worked on Chrome, Opera and Firefox. On Edge (38.14393.0.0), Search
Box has not been worked, and on Internet Explorer 11, scrolling has not been synchronized
with functions of Lines Box and Search Box. Other browsers have not been tested.

II. OSs and Devices
 I tested this plugin on Linux PC, Windows 10 PC, and Android
Mobile Device. In these, this plugin works. But the «mousemove» event for moving«
Sticker Box» may not be embedded in any mobile device. You may meet an issue of 
moving «Sticker Box».

  What will you do here in the future?

I’m thinking of colorful editor in this plugin. This would be embedded to default
editor. Absolutely, it would be depend on a renowned HTML5 «contenteditable» attribute
to «div» and tag replacing technique of jQuery. If you have some curious, please
note it in the support forum of this plugin.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Jimmy Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Kenta Ishii ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kenjmk7r9merchant/)

[Translate “Jimmy Editor” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/jimmy-editor)

### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

This Changelog is including results of compatibility tests. These tests assume latest
versions of Web Browsers as of the date written in each log, if additional version
information doesn’t been added to each name.

#### 1.0.4

 * Confirmed Compatibility with WordPress Version 4.9
 * WordPress 4.9 modified editors of plugins and themes. If you want Jimmy Editor
   in editors of both, check «Disable syntax highlighting when editing code» on 
   Profile.
    : April 26, 2018

#### 1.0.3

 * Confirmed Compatibility with WordPress Version 4.8
    : June 10, 2017

#### 1.0.2

 * Modified Search Box to make Regular Expression become enable to use back reference
   and to use «g» mode modifier
 * Added tab indent functions to Lines Box
 * Confirmed pre-selecting (no ranged) is needed to scroll correctly on Lines Box
   and Search Box, in case of ranged selecting of the text with the function.
    :
   April 24, 2017

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed Bug that when you want to replace some word which includes the target word;
   particularly, replacing stops
 * Added minimized files of JavaScript
    : April 17, 2017

#### 1.0

 * Release in WordPress.org
    : April 17, 2017

#### 0.9.9.3 Beta

 * Added indication of the line number and the character number when the keyup event
 * Set the default mode of Post Editor to «Text» mode
    : April 10, 2017

#### 0.9.9.2 Beta

 * Reviewed comments | Modified post-editor-patch.js
    : April 9, 2017

#### 0.9.9.1 Beta

 * Changed method for detection of «textarea» tag to fit other scripts | Modified
   README.txt
    : April 8, 2017

#### 0.9.9 Beta

 * Last Check for Release in WordPress.org
 * In IE (Internet Explorer 11) and Firefox, window scrolling has high fidelity,
   e.g. on Post Editor, push «Last» in Lines Box several times, then you can watch
   temporary scrolling to the top of the page and going back to the last of «textarea»
   tag. Besides, Chrome, Opera and Edge don’t have this temporary scrolling. In 
   my code, before refocusing to «textarea», I added window scrolling to the top(
   e.g. script-jimmy-editor-admin.js line No.387). Therefore, IE and Firefox have
   right answer. But in my opinion, functionally, Chrome, Opera and Edge are right
   because such a temporary scrolling is ugly. I think this difference derived from
   the difference of graphic improvement (such as hardware usage) in browsers. Chrome,
   Opera and Edge use graphic hardware in addition to CPU for rendering graphic 
   more actively. IE and Firefox (the successor of Netscape Navigator) use graphic
   hardware as GPU Acceleration, but these are an option. Probably, this difference
   don’t come from usage of graphic hardware directly. But to adapt graphic hardware
   to themselves, Chrome, Opera and Edge seem to write codes around graphic more
   newly than IE and Firefox. Personally, I like IE and Firefox because these are
   truly giants of Internet from Pre-Millenium. But I have to suggest them to rewrite
   their codes around graphic better than now. Particularly, Firefox is a front 
   runner of Internet. I should want Firefox to run towards the graphic front of
   Internet.
    : April 6, 2017

#### 0.9.8 Beta

 * Improved initial X Y positions of each Box | Modified Usability on Touching Device
 * Last Trial for Release in WordPress.org
 * (_Already Resolved by adding to reset window Y scroll in this version_) Firefox,
   IE and Edge’s issue to hide top level of «textarea» tag when «Top» in Lines Box
   seems to scroll to the top of the «textarea», not the top of «form» tag (Parent
   of «textarea») in default, unlike Chrome and Opera. If wanting to fix this problem,
   make the function to jump to the top of «form» tag manually when «Top» and «Go»
   to low numbered lines.
 * Edge (version 38.14393.0.0)’s issue to stop searching and not to be able to search
   the next word in Search Box randomly seems tricky because in IE (Internet Explorer
   11), searching is well done except scrolling. Edge is a de facto later version
   of IE. Plus, if you double click «Go» button, searching go ahead to the next 
   word. The reason of this issue seems a pointing problem, resetting cursor positions
   and pointing the end of the text area, after focusing other elements (e.g. put
   cursor on any point in the text area then start search, it starts from the end
   of the text area then hits the first searched word of the text area). IE clears
   this problem. To avoid this issue, it is needed to make function to save previous
   cursor positions manually before focusing other elements. But I decided to stay
   this issue because of correctness in IE, a de facto earlier version of Edge. 
   I’m going to report this issue to Microsoft for the improvement of Edge.
    : April
   5, 2017

#### 0.9.7 Beta

 * Changed the type of the pointing cursor for each Box | Modified README.txt
    :
   April 4, 2017

#### 0.9.6 Beta

 * Added Functions (such as Back to Start) for Search Box
    : April 3, 2017

#### 0.9.5 Beta

 * Added Modifier for Regular Expression in Search Box | Reviewed Text Domain
    :
   April 1, 2017

#### 0.9.4 Beta

 * Added Position and Style Saving
    : March 21, 2017

#### 0.9.3 Beta

 * Modified Regular Expression Searching in Search Box
    : March 21, 2017

#### 0.9.2 Beta

 * Trial on Browsers | Added Folding Function
 * On Firefox (Android) Worked.
 * On Chrome (PC), Opera (PC), Chrome (Android) and Opera (Android) Worked by adding
   refocusing the text area and dummy editing of text.
 * On IE (Internet Explorer 11), scrolling has not been synchronized with functions
   of Lines Box and Search Box.
 * On Edge (version 38.14393.0.0), an issue of scrolling similar to Firefox (PC 
   version 52.0.1) exists, plus Search Box has not been worked. Lines Box and Style
   Box have been worked on Edge.
    : March 21, 2017

#### 0.9.1 Beta

 * Added Font | Background-color Style Changer
 * On Firefox (PC version 52.0.1) Worked. But on Post Editor, scrolling has an issue,
   e.g., when clicking «Top», not showing the top level of the text area.
    : March
   19, 2017

#### 0.9 Beta

 * Beta Release: March 17, 2017

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.4**
 *  Last updated **8 yil ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
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## Contributors

 *   [ Kenta Ishii ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kenjmk7r9merchant/)

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