A new text editor for WordPress

Hello all,

I am fairly new to the WordPress community, but want to contribute. And I had this crazy idea…

For several years I have been working on a server-side code highlighting service, just for kicks. And I have noticed that WordPress does not have a de-facto editing environment for it’s coders (at least, not that I could find). So I got thinking…seeing as how WordPress is a child of the web, and a driver of the web, wouldn’t it be cool if WordPress got it’s own <b>web-based</b> editor.

So I put together a little something and am looking for some feedback on it. It’s an Open Source, web-accessible text editor for WordPress coders [which I have called scriptr]. The idea is that you would put it on a development server and point it at your WordPress directory. You would then start it up, and it would allow to edit any of your WordPress files on the server through a Google Chrome browser. This would eliminate the need to ssh into the server every time you wanted to edit a file, set up FTP access, or install a monstrous IDE.

At this point, I have the basics working(file loading/saving, syntax highlighting, and file browser). Access to it is protected by a username & password (you can leave a post here if you want the default one to get into it).

I am hoping to build it into something more sophisticated and useful over time, but I figured I would try to get some feedback as early as possible.

The home site for the project is http://un1tware.wordpress.com/. There you will find a bit more information on it, the code, and requirements to run it.

Thanks for your time and I look forward to any comments.
–Brad.