Presentation

Active Server Pages aka. ASP is the most popular tool for generating Web pages on Win32 platforms. An ASP page consists of HTML Tags mixed with server-side SCRIPT tags, <% %> tags and Server-Side Includes (SSI). The server-side tags are evaluated by the web server and sent as HTML (or any other MIME type) to the browser.

Furthermore, ASP has the ability to mix several server-side scripting languages in one page (mainly VBScript, Javascript and Perlscript). So it's possible to benefit from the best features of each of these scripting languages.

The ASP Mode plugin is my effort to provide a good ASP syntax colorizing mode for jEdit. It is conceived to handle documents written using multiple scripting languages. It is also modular, so it's quite easy to add other scripting languages (eg. Pythonscript).

Features

• HTML, Javascript, VBScript, and Perlscript colorizing in ASP
• ASP Mode makes the difference between server-side and client-side scripts.
• Possiblity to include server-side <% %> tags within client-side scripts.
• The <%@language="X" %> ASP directive for default server-side scripting language is taken into account.
• Standalone ASP modes: ASP Javascript, ASP VBScript, ASP Perl.
• The Javascript mode follows the ECMAScript standard.
• The VBScript mode is based on the VBScript 5 script engine from Microsoft.
• The Perlscript mode is based on the existing PerlTokenMarker from jEdit.

Future Directions

• Better HTML colorizing
• CSS colorizing
• WSH (Windows Scripting Host) Mode
• WSC (Windows Script Components) Mode