Low Level Web based Editor

Question

Is there any open source low level web based editor ? (I'm aware of wysiwyg editors like CKEditor, I'm looking for something different. )

• The editor should work in a way like new Google Docs editor.
• The editor should take user's input key by key and should build the text. so that the client JavaScript can have complete control while editing.
• Why i need it ? I need to build a DSL editor for my application with syntax highlighting and auto complete.
• I already found code editor ace http://ace.ajax.org . but it has lots of features that I don't need, so I'm searching for alternatives.
• I'm looking for similar lightweight editor, so that I can add my features (like autocomplete ) easily to it.

Answer 1

Have you seen Aloha Editor?

HTML5 and fast too:

http://www.aloha-editor.org/

It's open source there are no iframes and you can access the page contents just as they are.

It's the future of html editors.