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Collaborative writing with Markdown & Textile

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## Live preview

[**escrito.herokuapp.com**](http://escrito.herokuapp.com/) (also available at the [Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gjdfjkicccgkhmifgkilkpbbbadejddb))

## Installation and Usage

First make sure you have a working copy of [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/) and [npm](http://npmjs.org/)
(the node package manager).  
To install escrito you'll need coffee.

npm install -g coffee-script

Check if everything went okay.

coffee -v

Next, run (this may take a while):

npm install -g escrito

Then start the server.

escrito

That should be enough!  
You can pass custom arguments:

escrito --port 4567

Documents are not persistent by default but you can set a custom database type.  
The available options are 'memory' and 'redis'. Those are the database types supported by
the [ShareJS](https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS/) project.

escrito --database redis

For more detailed help type:

escrito -h

#### Local installation

You can also install escrito locally. This will install it in your current directory.

npm install escrito

Start the server:

npm start escrito

To pass custom arguments using npm, you have to use a slightly different syntax.  
For example, to set up the server with a custom port you should do the following:

npm config set escrito:port 5000

#### From source

You can clone the github repository.

git clone git://github.com/dmfrancisco/escrito.git

Install all the dependencies.

cd escrito
    npm install

Run the server:

coffee web.coffee

Again, you can pass custom arguments.

coffee web.coffee --port 4567 --database redis

#### Compiling CoffeeScripts

If you want to compile the CoffeeScripts to JavaScript.

cake build-dependencies
    cake build

Run the server:

node web.js

---

### This wouldn't be possible without Open Source projects like:

* [NodeJS](http://nodejs.org/) - Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript
* [ShareJS](https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS/) - The collaborative editing engine by Joseph Gentle
* [Ace Editor](https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/) - Textarea enriched by Mozilla
* [Markdown mode](https://github.com/fivesixty/notepages/) - Support added by Chris Spencer
* [Showdown](https://github.com/fivesixty/mdext/) - Markdown parser made by John Fraser
* [Textile parser](https://github.com/miebach/js-textile/) - Textile parser made by Ben Daglish
* [Google Caja](http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/) - HTML Sanitizer

Check them all in the [humans.txt](https://github.com/dmfrancisco/escrito/blob/master/public/humans.txt) file.

escrito

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