Please test in Windows - because i can not!

[soliton4]

please test nodemirror on different windows installations. especially the terminal module.

i only have one windows machine to test on and its a crappy developer installation.
i wonder if it runs everywhere as smooth as on my machine.

[Anachron]

I have installed this on my Win7 Ultimate x64 OS with Node 0.10.20 and got the following problems:

• I can't seem to make other languages to work except javascript and a few other. Less, Jade, Emblem, CoffeeScript and all others are loading as normal text files
• The app crashes after a while with the following error (I was loading a LESS file)

connect.limit() will be removed in connect 3.0
info - socket.io started

module.js:340
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'extend'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (...\node-mirror\lib\pty-win\lib\pty_win.js:8:14)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

• On uninstall I get the following error:

D:\apps\pwp\node\node_modules>npm uninstall node-mirror
unbuild node-mirror@0.1.4
npm ERR! Error: ENOTEMPTY, rmdir '...\node\node_modules\node-mirror'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR! npm-@googlegroups.com

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! command "D:\apps\pwp\node\node.exe" "...\node\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "uninstall" "node-mirror"
npm ERR! cwd ...\node\node_modules
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.20
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.13
npm ERR! path ...\node\node_modules\node-mirror
npm ERR! code ENOTEMPTY
npm ERR! errno 53
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! ...\node\node_modules\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

As for now, this library is not useable for me, which is sad because it looks great!

[soliton4]

@Anachron thx for the feedback

this is strange i just tested with node-mirror 0.1.3 on win 7 64 and it works
only difference is i have node 0.10.21

seems like the crash happened while you opened a terminal. did the terminal work for you or did it crash the first time u used it?

it could also be a unknown sideeffect from not running node in the root directory of your node-mirror installation.
could you try again in a dir where you can run node node_modules/node-mirror/bin/nodeMirror.js

the extend module is missing
pls check if there is a dir called "extend" in the following location:
lib/pty-win/node_modules

try doing a npm install extend parallel to node-mirror
pls report if that fixed the problem

thx again

[soliton4]

@Anachron i just release 0.1.5 which adds extend as a top level dependency. try if this does the trick for you.

about less
dont you have a test button when opening a less file?
also when you save it it should save a .css file with the same name

[Anachron]

Okay, reinstalled the latest release & running it:

D:\apps\pwp>node node\node_modules\node-mirror\bin\nodeMirror.js
Starting NodeMirror...
Starting NodeMirror...
connect.multipart() will be removed in connect 3.0
visit https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/wiki/Connect-3.0 for alternatives
connect.limit() will be removed in connect 3.0
info - socket.io started

When I try to open a less file it freezes here:

opening /apps/mimosa-emberboots/assets/stylesheets/app.less ...

Also CoffeeScript files don't have highlighting. Is there something I don't take care of?

[soliton4]

@Anachron i suspect your less file is recognized as a different content-type. would you care to post the less file here?
same may be true for the coffeescript file.
i may have to put in some fallbacks but i need data to do so.

try creating a new .less file does that work?

also can you create a terminal now?
the win version sometimes leaks open terminal processes after ending nodeMirror. this may be the reason why you can not delete the installation directory. check your task list.

your contribution is apprechiated

[soliton4]

@Anachron 0.1.6 released. *.less and *.coffee are now fixed to their content types. i still would like to know what was wrong with your less file

[Anachron]

@soliton4 sure, it doesn't work for any coffee-file in this project:
https://github.com/Anachron/mimosa-emberboots

Same with LESS-files.

I still can't open terminals, however, doing so doesn't crash the application anymore.

Edit:
Yes, coffee-files work now with 0.1.6! Thank you!
The LESS-files still don't load and freeze at:
"opening /apps/mimosa-emberboots/assets/stylesheets/app.less ..."

Edit2:
Opening a terminal in the new version results in this critical error:

module.js:356
Module._extensions[extension](this, filename);
^
Error: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
D:\apps\pwp\node\node_modules\node-mirror\lib\pty-win\build\Release\pty.node
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (D:\apps\pwp\node\node_modules\node-mirror\lib\pty-win\lib\pty.js:10:11)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

[soliton4]

@peters can you imagine what goes wrong here?

@Anachron it was a less mode bug in codemirror. thx for finding it. now it should work

[Anachron]

@soliton4 Thanks, I can confirm that LESS-files work now.
About the terminal thing, I guess because windows uses it's own module:
https://github.com/peters/winpty

[soliton4]

@Anachron yeah the win module is quite new. terminals work fine in unix. i hope we will reach some stability on windows.
are you sure you are using a 64 bit version of windows. pls look again and confirm.
also try a complete new installation of node-mirror. i noticed some problems with the terminal module when doing a update.

are there any other content types missing for you?

best wishes

[Anachron]

@soliton4 Pretty sure because Rightclick on Computer -> System -> System Type: 64-Bit Operating System does not leave me any questions left :)

I will check out the other content types soon.

[evs-chris]

On 64bit win8 (drivers... can't linux without them) with a touchscreen, loading in chrome halts while it's trying to load dgrid/TouchScroll.js and dgrid/util/touch.js. Manually putting the files in the node_module lets chrome roll on. Firefox seems to work ok since it doesn't try to load those two scripts.

[soliton4]

wow crazy! thx for that report dude. especially since i am running on a linux touchscreen laptop and i dont have that problem.
ill include the files in the build

[soliton4]

@evs-chris i just released 0.1.8. i included the 2 files in the build. could you try it out? also does the the new folderview work on your end?

[evs-chris]

@soliton4 Starts right up in chrome now.

The folderview renders like the screenshot from the readme. If the folder is empty, it never gets any content though. I also don't get any scrollbars if there are more entries than will fit on both the details and list views. There's an overflow: hidden style on the dgrid scroller. It took a few minutes, but I stumbled across the list hack. If you don't mind a little css3, you could try something more along the lines of this: http://jsfiddle.net/fSwb5/

That should act roughly like your standard small-icons file explorer view.