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  1. <!doctype html>
  2. <title>CodeMirror: User Manual</title>
  3. <meta charset="utf-8"/>
  4. <link rel=stylesheet href="docs.css">
  5. <script src="activebookmark.js"></script>
  6. <script src="../lib/codemirror.js"></script>
  7. <link rel="stylesheet" href="../lib/codemirror.css">
  8. <script src="../addon/runmode/runmode.js"></script>
  9. <script src="../addon/runmode/colorize.js"></script>
  10. <script src="../mode/javascript/javascript.js"></script>
  11. <script src="../mode/xml/xml.js"></script>
  12. <script src="../mode/css/css.js"></script>
  13. <script src="../mode/htmlmixed/htmlmixed.js"></script>
  14. <style>
  15. dt { text-indent: -2em; padding-left: 2em; margin-top: 1em; }
  16. dd { margin-left: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; }
  17. dt {margin-top: 1em;}
  18. dd dl, dd dt, dd dd, dd ul { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; }
  19. dt + dt { margin-top: 0; }
  20. dt.command { position: relative; }
  21. span.keybinding { position: absolute; right: 0; font-size: 80%; color: #555; text-indent: 0; }
  22. </style>
  23. <div id=nav>
  24. <a href="https://codemirror.net"><h1>CodeMirror</h1><img id=logo src="logo.png"></a>
  25. <ul>
  26. <li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li>
  27. <li><a href="#overview" class=active data-default="true">Manual</a></li>
  28. <li><a href="https://github.com/codemirror/codemirror">Code</a></li>
  29. </ul>
  30. <ul>
  31. <li><a href="#usage">Basic Usage</a></li>
  32. <li><a href="#config">Configuration</a></li>
  33. <li><a href="#events">Events</a></li>
  34. <li><a href="#keymaps">Key maps</a></li>
  35. <li><a href="#commands">Commands</a></li>
  36. <li><a href="#styling">Customized Styling</a></li>
  37. <li><a href="#api">Programming API</a>
  38. <ul>
  39. <li><a href="#api_constructor">Constructor</a></li>
  40. <li><a href="#api_content">Content manipulation</a></li>
  41. <li><a href="#api_selection">Selection</a></li>
  42. <li><a href="#api_configuration">Configuration</a></li>
  43. <li><a href="#api_doc">Document management</a></li>
  44. <li><a href="#api_history">History</a></li>
  45. <li><a href="#api_marker">Text-marking</a></li>
  46. <li><a href="#api_decoration">Widget, gutter, and decoration</a></li>
  47. <li><a href="#api_sizing">Sizing, scrolling, and positioning</a></li>
  48. <li><a href="#api_mode">Mode, state, and tokens</a></li>
  49. <li><a href="#api_misc">Miscellaneous methods</a></li>
  50. <li><a href="#api_static">Static properties</a></li>
  51. </ul>
  52. </li>
  53. <li><a href="#addons">Addons</a></li>
  54. <li><a href="#modeapi">Writing CodeMirror Modes</a></li>
  55. <li><a href="#vimapi">Vim Mode API</a>
  56. <ul>
  57. <li><a href="#vimapi_configuration">Configuration</a></li>
  58. <li><a href="#vimapi_extending">Extending VIM</a></li>
  59. </ul>
  60. </li>
  61. </ul>
  62. </div>
  63. <article>
  64. <section class=first id=overview>
  65. <h2 style="position: relative">
  66. User manual and reference guide
  67. <span style="color: #888; font-size: 1rem; position: absolute; right: 0; bottom: 0">version 5.40.2</span>
  68. </h2>
  69. <p>CodeMirror is a code-editor component that can be embedded in
  70. Web pages. The core library provides <em>only</em> the editor
  71. component, no accompanying buttons, auto-completion, or other IDE
  72. functionality. It does provide a rich API on top of which such
  73. functionality can be straightforwardly implemented. See
  74. the <a href="#addons">addons</a> included in the distribution,
  75. and the <a href="https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/wiki/CodeMirror-addons">list
  76. of externally hosted addons</a>, for reusable
  77. implementations of extra features.</p>
  78. <p>CodeMirror works with language-specific modes. Modes are
  79. JavaScript programs that help color (and optionally indent) text
  80. written in a given language. The distribution comes with a number
  81. of modes (see the <a href="../mode/"><code>mode/</code></a>
  82. directory), and it isn't hard to <a href="#modeapi">write new
  83. ones</a> for other languages.</p>
  84. </section>
  85. <section id=usage>
  86. <h2>Basic Usage</h2>
  87. <p>The easiest way to use CodeMirror is to simply load the script
  88. and style sheet found under <code>lib/</code> in the distribution,
  89. plus a mode script from one of the <code>mode/</code> directories.
  90. For example:</p>
  91. <pre data-lang="text/html">&lt;script src="lib/codemirror.js">&lt;/script>
  92. &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/codemirror.css">
  93. &lt;script src="mode/javascript/javascript.js">&lt;/script></pre>
  94. <p>(Alternatively, use a module loader. <a href="#modloader">More
  95. about that later.</a>)</p>
  96. <p>Having done this, an editor instance can be created like
  97. this:</p>
  98. <pre data-lang="javascript">var myCodeMirror = CodeMirror(document.body);</pre>
  99. <p>The editor will be appended to the document body, will start
  100. empty, and will use the mode that we loaded. To have more control
  101. over the new editor, a configuration object can be passed
  102. to <a href="#CodeMirror"><code>CodeMirror</code></a> as a second
  103. argument:</p>
  104. <pre data-lang="javascript">var myCodeMirror = CodeMirror(document.body, {
  105. value: "function myScript(){return 100;}\n",
  106. mode: "javascript"
  107. });</pre>
  108. <p>This will initialize the editor with a piece of code already in
  109. it, and explicitly tell it to use the JavaScript mode (which is
  110. useful when multiple modes are loaded).
  111. See <a href="#config">below</a> for a full discussion of the
  112. configuration options that CodeMirror accepts.</p>
  113. <p>In cases where you don't want to append the editor to an
  114. element, and need more control over the way it is inserted, the
  115. first argument to the <code>CodeMirror</code> function can also
  116. be a function that, when given a DOM element, inserts it into the
  117. document somewhere. This could be used to, for example, replace a
  118. textarea with a real editor:</p>
  119. <pre data-lang="javascript">var myCodeMirror = CodeMirror(function(elt) {
  120. myTextArea.parentNode.replaceChild(elt, myTextArea);
  121. }, {value: myTextArea.value});</pre>
  122. <p>However, for this use case, which is a common way to use
  123. CodeMirror, the library provides a much more powerful
  124. shortcut:</p>
  125. <pre data-lang="javascript">var myCodeMirror = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(myTextArea);</pre>
  126. <p>This will, among other things, ensure that the textarea's value
  127. is updated with the editor's contents when the form (if it is part
  128. of a form) is submitted. See the <a href="#fromTextArea">API
  129. reference</a> for a full description of this method.</p>
  130. <h3 id=modloader>Module loaders</h3>
  131. <p>The files in the CodeMirror distribution contain shims for
  132. loading them (and their dependencies) in AMD or CommonJS
  133. environments. If the variables <code>exports</code>
  134. and <code>module</code> exist and have type object, CommonJS-style
  135. require will be used. If not, but there is a
  136. function <code>define</code> with an <code>amd</code> property
  137. present, AMD-style (RequireJS) will be used.</p>
  138. <p>It is possible to
  139. use <a href="http://browserify.org/">Browserify</a> or similar
  140. tools to statically build modules using CodeMirror. Alternatively,
  141. use <a href="http://requirejs.org/">RequireJS</a> to dynamically
  142. load dependencies at runtime. Both of these approaches have the
  143. advantage that they don't use the global namespace and can, thus,
  144. do things like load multiple versions of CodeMirror alongside each
  145. other.</p>
  146. <p>Here's a simple example of using RequireJS to load CodeMirror:</p>
  147. <pre data-lang="javascript">require([
  148. "cm/lib/codemirror", "cm/mode/htmlmixed/htmlmixed"
  149. ], function(CodeMirror) {
  150. CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById("code"), {
  151. lineNumbers: true,
  152. mode: "htmlmixed"
  153. });
  154. });</pre>
  155. <p>It will automatically load the modes that the mixed HTML mode
  156. depends on (XML, JavaScript, and CSS). Do <em>not</em> use
  157. RequireJS' <code>paths</code> option to configure the path to
  158. CodeMirror, since it will break loading submodules through
  159. relative paths. Use
  160. the <a href="http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#packages"><code>packages</code></a>
  161. configuration option instead, as in:</p>
  162. <pre data-lang=javascript>require.config({
  163. packages: [{
  164. name: "codemirror",
  165. location: "../path/to/codemirror",
  166. main: "lib/codemirror"
  167. }]
  168. });</pre>
  169. </section>
  170. <section id=config>
  171. <h2>Configuration</h2>
  172. <p>Both the <a href="#CodeMirror"><code>CodeMirror</code></a>
  173. function and its <code>fromTextArea</code> method take as second
  174. (optional) argument an object containing configuration options.
  175. Any option not supplied like this will be taken
  176. from <a href="#defaults"><code>CodeMirror.defaults</code></a>, an
  177. object containing the default options. You can update this object
  178. to change the defaults on your page.</p>
  179. <p>Options are not checked in any way, so setting bogus option
  180. values is bound to lead to odd errors.</p>
  181. <p>These are the supported options:</p>
  182. <dl>
  183. <dt id="option_value"><code><strong>value</strong>: string|CodeMirror.Doc</code></dt>
  184. <dd>The starting value of the editor. Can be a string, or
  185. a <a href="#api_doc">document object</a>.</dd>
  186. <dt id="option_mode"><code><strong>mode</strong>: string|object</code></dt>
  187. <dd>The mode to use. When not given, this will default to the
  188. first mode that was loaded. It may be a string, which either
  189. simply names the mode or is
  190. a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME">MIME</a> type
  191. associated with the mode. Alternatively, it may be an object
  192. containing configuration options for the mode, with
  193. a <code>name</code> property that names the mode (for
  194. example <code>{name: "javascript", json: true}</code>). The demo
  195. pages for each mode contain information about what configuration
  196. parameters the mode supports. You can ask CodeMirror which modes
  197. and MIME types have been defined by inspecting
  198. the <code>CodeMirror.modes</code>
  199. and <code>CodeMirror.mimeModes</code> objects. The first maps
  200. mode names to their constructors, and the second maps MIME types
  201. to mode specs.</dd>
  202. <dt id="option_lineSeparator"><code><strong>lineSeparator</strong>: string|null</code></dt>
  203. <dd>Explicitly set the line separator for the editor. By default
  204. (value <code>null</code>), the document will be split on CRLFs
  205. as well as lone CRs and LFs, and a single LF will be used as
  206. line separator in all output (such
  207. as <a href="#getValue"><code>getValue</code></a>). When a
  208. specific string is given, lines will only be split on that
  209. string, and output will, by default, use that same
  210. separator.</dd>
  211. <dt id="option_theme"><code><strong>theme</strong>: string</code></dt>
  212. <dd>The theme to style the editor with. You must make sure the
  213. CSS file defining the corresponding <code>.cm-s-[name]</code>
  214. styles is loaded (see
  215. the <a href="../theme/"><code>theme</code></a> directory in the
  216. distribution). The default is <code>"default"</code>, for which
  217. colors are included in <code>codemirror.css</code>. It is
  218. possible to use multiple theming classes at once—for
  219. example <code>"foo bar"</code> will assign both
  220. the <code>cm-s-foo</code> and the <code>cm-s-bar</code> classes
  221. to the editor.</dd>
  222. <dt id="option_indentUnit"><code><strong>indentUnit</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  223. <dd>How many spaces a block (whatever that means in the edited
  224. language) should be indented. The default is 2.</dd>
  225. <dt id="option_smartIndent"><code><strong>smartIndent</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  226. <dd>Whether to use the context-sensitive indentation that the
  227. mode provides (or just indent the same as the line before).
  228. Defaults to true.</dd>
  229. <dt id="option_tabSize"><code><strong>tabSize</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  230. <dd>The width of a tab character. Defaults to 4.</dd>
  231. <dt id="option_indentWithTabs"><code><strong>indentWithTabs</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  232. <dd>Whether, when indenting, the first N*<code>tabSize</code>
  233. spaces should be replaced by N tabs. Default is false.</dd>
  234. <dt id="option_electricChars"><code><strong>electricChars</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  235. <dd>Configures whether the editor should re-indent the current
  236. line when a character is typed that might change its proper
  237. indentation (only works if the mode supports indentation).
  238. Default is true.</dd>
  239. <dt id="option_specialChars"><code><strong>specialChars</strong>: RegExp</code></dt>
  240. <dd>A regular expression used to determine which characters
  241. should be replaced by a
  242. special <a href="#option_specialCharPlaceholder">placeholder</a>.
  243. Mostly useful for non-printing special characters. The default
  244. is <code>/[\u0000-\u001f\u007f-\u009f\u00ad\u061c\u200b-\u200f\u2028\u2029\ufeff]/</code>.</dd>
  245. <dt id="option_specialCharPlaceholder"><code><strong>specialCharPlaceholder</strong>: function(char) → Element</code></dt>
  246. <dd>A function that, given a special character identified by
  247. the <a href="#option_specialChars"><code>specialChars</code></a>
  248. option, produces a DOM node that is used to represent the
  249. character. By default, a red dot (<span style="color: red">•</span>)
  250. is shown, with a title tooltip to indicate the character code.</dd>
  251. <dt id="option_direction"><code><strong>direction</strong>: "ltr" | "rtl"</code></dt>
  252. <dd>Flips overall layout and selects base paragraph direction to
  253. be left-to-right or right-to-left. Default is "ltr".
  254. CodeMirror applies the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm to each
  255. line, but does not autodetect base direction — it's set to the
  256. editor direction for all lines. The resulting order is
  257. sometimes wrong when base direction doesn't match user intent
  258. (for example, leading and trailing punctuation jumps to the
  259. wrong side of the line). Therefore, it's helpful for
  260. multilingual input to let users toggle this option.
  261. <dt id="option_rtlMoveVisually"><code><strong>rtlMoveVisually</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  262. <dd>Determines whether horizontal cursor movement through
  263. right-to-left (Arabic, Hebrew) text is visual (pressing the left
  264. arrow moves the cursor left) or logical (pressing the left arrow
  265. moves to the next lower index in the string, which is visually
  266. right in right-to-left text). The default is <code>false</code>
  267. on Windows, and <code>true</code> on other platforms.</dd>
  268. <dt id="option_keyMap"><code><strong>keyMap</strong>: string</code></dt>
  269. <dd>Configures the key map to use. The default
  270. is <code>"default"</code>, which is the only key map defined
  271. in <code>codemirror.js</code> itself. Extra key maps are found in
  272. the <a href="../keymap/"><code>key map</code></a> directory. See
  273. the <a href="#keymaps">section on key maps</a> for more
  274. information.</dd>
  275. <dt id="option_extraKeys"><code><strong>extraKeys</strong>: object</code></dt>
  276. <dd>Can be used to specify extra key bindings for the editor,
  277. alongside the ones defined
  278. by <a href="#option_keyMap"><code>keyMap</code></a>. Should be
  279. either null, or a valid <a href="#keymaps">key map</a> value.</dd>
  280. <dt id="option_configureMouse"><code><strong>configureMouse</strong>: fn(cm: CodeMirror, repeat: "single" | "double" | "triple", event: Event) → Object</code></dt>
  281. <dd>Allows you to configure the behavior of mouse selection and
  282. dragging. The function is called when the left mouse button is
  283. pressed. The returned object may have the following properties:
  284. <dl>
  285. <dt><code><strong>unit</strong>: "char" | "word" | "line" | "rectangle" | fn(CodeMirror, Pos) → {from: Pos, to: Pos}</code></dt>
  286. <dd>The unit by which to select. May be one of the built-in
  287. units, or a function that takes a position and returns a
  288. range around that, for a custom unit.</dd>
  289. <dt><code><strong>extend</strong>: bool</code></dt>
  290. <dd>Whether to extend the existing selection range or start a new one.</dd>
  291. <dt><code><strong>addNew</strong>: bool</code></dt>
  292. <dd>When enabled, this adds a new range to the existing selection, rather than replacing it.</dd>
  293. <dt><code><strong>moveOnDrag</strong>: bool</code></dt>
  294. <dd>When the mouse even drags content around inside the
  295. editor, this controls whether it is copied (false) or moved
  296. (true).</dd>
  297. </dl>
  298. </dd>
  299. <dt id="option_lineWrapping"><code><strong>lineWrapping</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  300. <dd>Whether CodeMirror should scroll or wrap for long lines.
  301. Defaults to <code>false</code> (scroll).</dd>
  302. <dt id="option_lineNumbers"><code><strong>lineNumbers</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  303. <dd>Whether to show line numbers to the left of the editor.</dd>
  304. <dt id="option_firstLineNumber"><code><strong>firstLineNumber</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  305. <dd>At which number to start counting lines. Default is 1.</dd>
  306. <dt id="option_lineNumberFormatter"><code><strong>lineNumberFormatter</strong>: function(line: integer) → string</code></dt>
  307. <dd>A function used to format line numbers. The function is
  308. passed the line number, and should return a string that will be
  309. shown in the gutter.</dd>
  310. <dt id="option_gutters"><code><strong>gutters</strong>: array&lt;string&gt;</code></dt>
  311. <dd>Can be used to add extra gutters (beyond or instead of the
  312. line number gutter). Should be an array of CSS class names, each
  313. of which defines a <code>width</code> (and optionally a
  314. background), and which will be used to draw the background of
  315. the gutters. <em>May</em> include
  316. the <code>CodeMirror-linenumbers</code> class, in order to
  317. explicitly set the position of the line number gutter (it will
  318. default to be to the right of all other gutters). These class
  319. names are the keys passed
  320. to <a href="#setGutterMarker"><code>setGutterMarker</code></a>.</dd>
  321. <dt id="option_fixedGutter"><code><strong>fixedGutter</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  322. <dd>Determines whether the gutter scrolls along with the content
  323. horizontally (false) or whether it stays fixed during horizontal
  324. scrolling (true, the default).</dd>
  325. <dt id="option_scrollbarStyle"><code><strong>scrollbarStyle</strong>: string</code></dt>
  326. <dd>Chooses a scrollbar implementation. The default
  327. is <code>"native"</code>, showing native scrollbars. The core
  328. library also provides the <code>"null"</code> style, which
  329. completely hides the
  330. scrollbars. <a href="#addon_simplescrollbars">Addons</a> can
  331. implement additional scrollbar models.</dd>
  332. <dt id="option_coverGutterNextToScrollbar"><code><strong>coverGutterNextToScrollbar</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  333. <dd>When <a href="#option_fixedGutter"><code>fixedGutter</code></a>
  334. is on, and there is a horizontal scrollbar, by default the
  335. gutter will be visible to the left of this scrollbar. If this
  336. option is set to true, it will be covered by an element with
  337. class <code>CodeMirror-gutter-filler</code>.</dd>
  338. <dt id="option_inputStyle"><code><strong>inputStyle</strong>: string</code></dt>
  339. <dd>Selects the way CodeMirror handles input and focus. The core
  340. library defines the <code>"textarea"</code>
  341. and <code>"contenteditable"</code> input models. On mobile
  342. browsers, the default is <code>"contenteditable"</code>. On
  343. desktop browsers, the default is <code>"textarea"</code>.
  344. Support for IME and screen readers is better in
  345. the <code>"contenteditable"</code> model. The intention is to
  346. make it the default on modern desktop browsers in the
  347. future.</dd>
  348. <dt id="option_readOnly"><code><strong>readOnly</strong>: boolean|string</code></dt>
  349. <dd>This disables editing of the editor content by the user. If
  350. the special value <code>"nocursor"</code> is given (instead of
  351. simply <code>true</code>), focusing of the editor is also
  352. disallowed.</dd>
  353. <dt id="option_showCursorWhenSelecting"><code><strong>showCursorWhenSelecting</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  354. <dd>Whether the cursor should be drawn when a selection is
  355. active. Defaults to false.</dd>
  356. <dt id="option_lineWiseCopyCut"><code><strong>lineWiseCopyCut</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  357. <dd>When enabled, which is the default, doing copy or cut when
  358. there is no selection will copy or cut the whole lines that have
  359. cursors on them.</dd>
  360. <dt id="option_pasteLinesPerSelection"><code><strong>pasteLinesPerSelection</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  361. <dd>When pasting something from an external source (not from the
  362. editor itself), if the number of lines matches the number of
  363. selection, CodeMirror will by default insert one line per
  364. selection. You can set this to <code>false</code> to disable
  365. that behavior.</dd>
  366. <dt id="option_undoDepth"><code><strong>undoDepth</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  367. <dd>The maximum number of undo levels that the editor stores.
  368. Note that this includes selection change events. Defaults to
  369. 200.</dd>
  370. <dt id="option_historyEventDelay"><code><strong>historyEventDelay</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  371. <dd>The period of inactivity (in milliseconds) that will cause a
  372. new history event to be started when typing or deleting.
  373. Defaults to 1250.</dd>
  374. <dt id="option_tabindex"><code><strong>tabindex</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  375. <dd>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-tabindex">tab
  376. index</a> to assign to the editor. If not given, no tab index
  377. will be assigned.</dd>
  378. <dt id="option_autofocus"><code><strong>autofocus</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  379. <dd>Can be used to make CodeMirror focus itself on
  380. initialization. Defaults to off.
  381. When <a href="#fromTextArea"><code>fromTextArea</code></a> is
  382. used, and no explicit value is given for this option, it will be
  383. set to true when either the source textarea is focused, or it
  384. has an <code>autofocus</code> attribute and no other element is
  385. focused.</dd>
  386. <dt id="option_phrases"><code><strong>phrases</strong>: ?object</code></dt>
  387. <dd>Some addons run user-visible strings (such as labels in the
  388. interface) through the <a href="#phrase"><code>phrase</code></a>
  389. method to allow for translation. This option determines the
  390. return value of that method. When it is null or an object that
  391. doesn't have a property named by the input string, that string
  392. is returned. Otherwise, the value of the property corresponding
  393. to that string is returned.</dd>
  394. </dl>
  395. <p>Below this a few more specialized, low-level options are
  396. listed. These are only useful in very specific situations, you
  397. might want to skip them the first time you read this manual.</p>
  398. <dl>
  399. <dt id="option_dragDrop"><code><strong>dragDrop</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  400. <dd>Controls whether drag-and-drop is enabled. On by default.</dd>
  401. <dt id="option_allowDropFileTypes"><code><strong>allowDropFileTypes</strong>: array&lt;string&gt;</code></dt>
  402. <dd>When set (default is <code>null</code>) only files whose
  403. type is in the array can be dropped into the editor. The strings
  404. should be MIME types, and will be checked against
  405. the <a href="https://w3c.github.io/FileAPI/#dfn-type"><code>type</code></a>
  406. of the <code>File</code> object as reported by the browser.</dd>
  407. <dt id="option_cursorBlinkRate"><code><strong>cursorBlinkRate</strong>: number</code></dt>
  408. <dd>Half-period in milliseconds used for cursor blinking. The default blink
  409. rate is 530ms. By setting this to zero, blinking can be disabled. A
  410. negative value hides the cursor entirely.</dd>
  411. <dt id="option_cursorScrollMargin"><code><strong>cursorScrollMargin</strong>: number</code></dt>
  412. <dd>How much extra space to always keep above and below the
  413. cursor when approaching the top or bottom of the visible view in
  414. a scrollable document. Default is 0.</dd>
  415. <dt id="option_cursorHeight"><code><strong>cursorHeight</strong>: number</code></dt>
  416. <dd>Determines the height of the cursor. Default is 1, meaning
  417. it spans the whole height of the line. For some fonts (and by
  418. some tastes) a smaller height (for example <code>0.85</code>),
  419. which causes the cursor to not reach all the way to the bottom
  420. of the line, looks better</dd>
  421. <dt id="option_resetSelectionOnContextMenu"><code><strong>resetSelectionOnContextMenu</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  422. <dd>Controls whether, when the context menu is opened with a
  423. click outside of the current selection, the cursor is moved to
  424. the point of the click. Defaults to <code>true</code>.</dd>
  425. <dt id="option_workTime"><code id="option_wordkDelay"><strong>workTime</strong>, <strong>workDelay</strong>: number</code></dt>
  426. <dd>Highlighting is done by a pseudo background-thread that will
  427. work for <code>workTime</code> milliseconds, and then use
  428. timeout to sleep for <code>workDelay</code> milliseconds. The
  429. defaults are 200 and 300, you can change these options to make
  430. the highlighting more or less aggressive.</dd>
  431. <dt id="option_pollInterval"><code><strong>pollInterval</strong>: number</code></dt>
  432. <dd>Indicates how quickly CodeMirror should poll its input
  433. textarea for changes (when focused). Most input is captured by
  434. events, but some things, like IME input on some browsers, don't
  435. generate events that allow CodeMirror to properly detect it.
  436. Thus, it polls. Default is 100 milliseconds.</dd>
  437. <dt id="option_flattenSpans"><code><strong>flattenSpans</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  438. <dd>By default, CodeMirror will combine adjacent tokens into a
  439. single span if they have the same class. This will result in a
  440. simpler DOM tree, and thus perform better. With some kinds of
  441. styling (such as rounded corners), this will change the way the
  442. document looks. You can set this option to false to disable this
  443. behavior.</dd>
  444. <dt id="option_addModeClass"><code><strong>addModeClass</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  445. <dd>When enabled (off by default), an extra CSS class will be
  446. added to each token, indicating the
  447. (<a href="#innerMode">inner</a>) mode that produced it, prefixed
  448. with <code>"cm-m-"</code>. For example, tokens from the XML mode
  449. will get the <code>cm-m-xml</code> class.</dd>
  450. <dt id="option_maxHighlightLength"><code><strong>maxHighlightLength</strong>: number</code></dt>
  451. <dd>When highlighting long lines, in order to stay responsive,
  452. the editor will give up and simply style the rest of the line as
  453. plain text when it reaches a certain position. The default is
  454. 10 000. You can set this to <code>Infinity</code> to turn off
  455. this behavior.</dd>
  456. <dt id="option_viewportMargin"><code><strong>viewportMargin</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  457. <dd>Specifies the amount of lines that are rendered above and
  458. below the part of the document that's currently scrolled into
  459. view. This affects the amount of updates needed when scrolling,
  460. and the amount of work that such an update does. You should
  461. usually leave it at its default, 10. Can be set
  462. to <code>Infinity</code> to make sure the whole document is
  463. always rendered, and thus the browser's text search works on it.
  464. This <em>will</em> have bad effects on performance of big
  465. documents.</dd>
  466. </dl>
  467. </section>
  468. <section id=events>
  469. <h2>Events</h2>
  470. <p>Various CodeMirror-related objects emit events, which allow
  471. client code to react to various situations. Handlers for such
  472. events can be registered with the <a href="#on"><code>on</code></a>
  473. and <a href="#off"><code>off</code></a> methods on the objects
  474. that the event fires on. To fire your own events,
  475. use <code>CodeMirror.signal(target, name, args...)</code>,
  476. where <code>target</code> is a non-DOM-node object.</p>
  477. <p>An editor instance fires the following events.
  478. The <code>instance</code> argument always refers to the editor
  479. itself.</p>
  480. <dl>
  481. <dt id="event_change"><code><strong>"change"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, changeObj: object)</code></dt>
  482. <dd>Fires every time the content of the editor is changed.
  483. The <code>changeObj</code> is a <code>{from, to, text, removed,
  484. origin}</code> object containing information about the changes
  485. that occurred as second argument. <code>from</code>
  486. and <code>to</code> are the positions (in the pre-change
  487. coordinate system) where the change started and ended (for
  488. example, it might be <code>{ch:0, line:18}</code> if the
  489. position is at the beginning of line #19). <code>text</code> is
  490. an array of strings representing the text that replaced the
  491. changed range (split by line). <code>removed</code> is the text
  492. that used to be between <code>from</code> and <code>to</code>,
  493. which is overwritten by this change. This event is
  494. fired <em>before</em> the end of
  495. an <a href="#operation">operation</a>, before the DOM updates
  496. happen.</dd>
  497. <dt id="event_changes"><code><strong>"changes"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, changes: array&lt;object&gt;)</code></dt>
  498. <dd>Like the <a href="#event_change"><code>"change"</code></a>
  499. event, but batched per <a href="#operation">operation</a>,
  500. passing an array containing all the changes that happened in the
  501. operation. This event is fired after the operation finished, and
  502. display changes it makes will trigger a new operation.</dd>
  503. <dt id="event_beforeChange"><code><strong>"beforeChange"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, changeObj: object)</code></dt>
  504. <dd>This event is fired before a change is applied, and its
  505. handler may choose to modify or cancel the change.
  506. The <code>changeObj</code> object
  507. has <code>from</code>, <code>to</code>, and <code>text</code>
  508. properties, as with
  509. the <a href="#event_change"><code>"change"</code></a> event. It
  510. also has a <code>cancel()</code> method, which can be called to
  511. cancel the change, and, <strong>if</strong> the change isn't
  512. coming from an undo or redo event, an <code>update(from, to,
  513. text)</code> method, which may be used to modify the change.
  514. Undo or redo changes can't be modified, because they hold some
  515. metainformation for restoring old marked ranges that is only
  516. valid for that specific change. All three arguments
  517. to <code>update</code> are optional, and can be left off to
  518. leave the existing value for that field
  519. intact. <strong>Note:</strong> you may not do anything from
  520. a <code>"beforeChange"</code> handler that would cause changes
  521. to the document or its visualization. Doing so will, since this
  522. handler is called directly from the bowels of the CodeMirror
  523. implementation, probably cause the editor to become
  524. corrupted.</dd>
  525. <dt id="event_cursorActivity"><code><strong>"cursorActivity"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror)</code></dt>
  526. <dd>Will be fired when the cursor or selection moves, or any
  527. change is made to the editor content.</dd>
  528. <dt id="event_keyHandled"><code><strong>"keyHandled"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, name: string, event: Event)</code></dt>
  529. <dd>Fired after a key is handled through a
  530. key map. <code>name</code> is the name of the handled key (for
  531. example <code>"Ctrl-X"</code> or <code>"'q'"</code>),
  532. and <code>event</code> is the DOM <code>keydown</code>
  533. or <code>keypress</code> event.</dd>
  534. <dt id="event_inputRead"><code><strong>"inputRead"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, changeObj: object)</code></dt>
  535. <dd>Fired whenever new input is read from the hidden textarea
  536. (typed or pasted by the user).</dd>
  537. <dt id="event_electricInput"><code><strong>"electricInput"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, line: integer)</code></dt>
  538. <dd>Fired if text input matched the
  539. mode's <a href="#option_electricChars">electric</a> patterns,
  540. and this caused the line's indentation to change.</dd>
  541. <dt id="event_beforeSelectionChange"><code><strong>"beforeSelectionChange"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, obj: {ranges, origin, update})</code></dt>
  542. <dd>This event is fired before the selection is moved. Its
  543. handler may inspect the set of selection ranges, present as an
  544. array of <code>{anchor, head}</code> objects in
  545. the <code>ranges</code> property of the <code>obj</code>
  546. argument, and optionally change them by calling
  547. the <code>update</code> method on this object, passing an array
  548. of ranges in the same format. The object also contains
  549. an <code>origin</code> property holding the origin string passed
  550. to the selection-changing method, if any. Handlers for this
  551. event have the same restriction
  552. as <a href="#event_beforeChange"><code>"beforeChange"</code></a>
  553. handlers — they should not do anything to directly update the
  554. state of the editor.</dd>
  555. <dt id="event_viewportChange"><code><strong>"viewportChange"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, from: number, to: number)</code></dt>
  556. <dd>Fires whenever the <a href="#getViewport">view port</a> of
  557. the editor changes (due to scrolling, editing, or any other
  558. factor). The <code>from</code> and <code>to</code> arguments
  559. give the new start and end of the viewport.</dd>
  560. <dt id="event_swapDoc"><code><strong>"swapDoc"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, oldDoc: Doc)</code></dt>
  561. <dd>This is signalled when the editor's document is replaced
  562. using the <a href="#swapDoc"><code>swapDoc</code></a>
  563. method.</dd>
  564. <dt id="event_gutterClick"><code><strong>"gutterClick"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, line: integer, gutter: string, clickEvent: Event)</code></dt>
  565. <dd>Fires when the editor gutter (the line-number area) is
  566. clicked. Will pass the editor instance as first argument, the
  567. (zero-based) number of the line that was clicked as second
  568. argument, the CSS class of the gutter that was clicked as third
  569. argument, and the raw <code>mousedown</code> event object as
  570. fourth argument.</dd>
  571. <dt id="event_gutterContextMenu"><code><strong>"gutterContextMenu"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, line: integer, gutter: string, contextMenu: Event: Event)</code></dt>
  572. <dd>Fires when the editor gutter (the line-number area)
  573. receives a <code>contextmenu</code> event. Will pass the editor
  574. instance as first argument, the (zero-based) number of the line
  575. that was clicked as second argument, the CSS class of the
  576. gutter that was clicked as third argument, and the raw
  577. <code>contextmenu</code> mouse event object as fourth argument.
  578. You can <code>preventDefault</code> the event, to signal that
  579. CodeMirror should do no further handling.</dd>
  580. <dt id="event_focus"><code><strong>"focus"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, event: Event)</code></dt>
  581. <dd>Fires whenever the editor is focused.</dd>
  582. <dt id="event_blur"><code><strong>"blur"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, event: Event)</code></dt>
  583. <dd>Fires whenever the editor is unfocused.</dd>
  584. <dt id="event_scroll"><code><strong>"scroll"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror)</code></dt>
  585. <dd>Fires when the editor is scrolled.</dd>
  586. <dt id="event_refresh"><code><strong>"refresh"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror)</code></dt>
  587. <dd>Fires when the editor is <a href="#refresh">refreshed</a>
  588. or <a href="#setSize">resized</a>. Mostly useful to invalidate
  589. cached values that depend on the editor or character size.</dd>
  590. <dt id="event_optionChange"><code><strong>"optionChange"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, option: string)</code></dt>
  591. <dd>Dispatched every time an option is changed with <a href="#setOption"><code>setOption</code></a>.</dd>
  592. <dt id="event_scrollCursorIntoView"><code><strong>"scrollCursorIntoView"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, event: Event)</code></dt>
  593. <dd>Fires when the editor tries to scroll its cursor into view.
  594. Can be hooked into to take care of additional scrollable
  595. containers around the editor. When the event object has
  596. its <code>preventDefault</code> method called, CodeMirror will
  597. not itself try to scroll the window.</dd>
  598. <dt id="event_update"><code><strong>"update"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror)</code></dt>
  599. <dd>Will be fired whenever CodeMirror updates its DOM display.</dd>
  600. <dt id="event_renderLine"><code><strong>"renderLine"</strong> (instance: CodeMirror, line: LineHandle, element: Element)</code></dt>
  601. <dd>Fired whenever a line is (re-)rendered to the DOM. Fired
  602. right after the DOM element is built, <em>before</em> it is
  603. added to the document. The handler may mess with the style of
  604. the resulting element, or add event handlers, but
  605. should <em>not</em> try to change the state of the editor.</dd>
  606. <dt id="event_dom"><code><strong>"mousedown"</strong>,
  607. <strong>"dblclick"</strong>, <strong>"touchstart"</strong>, <strong>"contextmenu"</strong>,
  608. <strong>"keydown"</strong>, <strong>"keypress"</strong>,
  609. <strong>"keyup"</strong>, <strong>"cut"</strong>, <strong>"copy"</strong>, <strong>"paste"</strong>,
  610. <strong>"dragstart"</strong>, <strong>"dragenter"</strong>,
  611. <strong>"dragover"</strong>, <strong>"dragleave"</strong>,
  612. <strong>"drop"</strong>
  613. (instance: CodeMirror, event: Event)</code></dt>
  614. <dd>Fired when CodeMirror is handling a DOM event of this type.
  615. You can <code>preventDefault</code> the event, or give it a
  616. truthy <code>codemirrorIgnore</code> property, to signal that
  617. CodeMirror should do no further handling.</dd>
  618. </dl>
  619. <p>Document objects (instances
  620. of <a href="#Doc"><code>CodeMirror.Doc</code></a>) emit the
  621. following events:</p>
  622. <dl>
  623. <dt id="event_doc_change"><code><strong>"change"</strong> (doc: CodeMirror.Doc, changeObj: object)</code></dt>
  624. <dd>Fired whenever a change occurs to the
  625. document. <code>changeObj</code> has a similar type as the
  626. object passed to the
  627. editor's <a href="#event_change"><code>"change"</code></a>
  628. event.</dd>
  629. <dt id="event_doc_beforeChange"><code><strong>"beforeChange"</strong> (doc: CodeMirror.Doc, change: object)</code></dt>
  630. <dd>See the <a href="#event_beforeChange">description of the
  631. same event</a> on editor instances.</dd>
  632. <dt id="event_doc_cursorActivity"><code><strong>"cursorActivity"</strong> (doc: CodeMirror.Doc)</code></dt>
  633. <dd>Fired whenever the cursor or selection in this document
  634. changes.</dd>
  635. <dt id="event_doc_beforeSelectionChange"><code><strong>"beforeSelectionChange"</strong> (doc: CodeMirror.Doc, selection: {head, anchor})</code></dt>
  636. <dd>Equivalent to
  637. the <a href="#event_beforeSelectionChange">event by the same
  638. name</a> as fired on editor instances.</dd>
  639. </dl>
  640. <p>Line handles (as returned by, for
  641. example, <a href="#getLineHandle"><code>getLineHandle</code></a>)
  642. support these events:</p>
  643. <dl>
  644. <dt id="event_delete"><code><strong>"delete"</strong> ()</code></dt>
  645. <dd>Will be fired when the line object is deleted. A line object
  646. is associated with the <em>start</em> of the line. Mostly useful
  647. when you need to find out when your <a href="#setGutterMarker">gutter
  648. markers</a> on a given line are removed.</dd>
  649. <dt id="event_line_change"><code><strong>"change"</strong> (line: LineHandle, changeObj: object)</code></dt>
  650. <dd>Fires when the line's text content is changed in any way
  651. (but the line is not deleted outright). The <code>change</code>
  652. object is similar to the one passed
  653. to <a href="#event_change">change event</a> on the editor
  654. object.</dd>
  655. </dl>
  656. <p>Marked range handles (<code>CodeMirror.TextMarker</code>), as returned
  657. by <a href="#markText"><code>markText</code></a>
  658. and <a href="#setBookmark"><code>setBookmark</code></a>, emit the
  659. following events:</p>
  660. <dl>
  661. <dt id="event_beforeCursorEnter"><code><strong>"beforeCursorEnter"</strong> ()</code></dt>
  662. <dd>Fired when the cursor enters the marked range. From this
  663. event handler, the editor state may be inspected
  664. but <em>not</em> modified, with the exception that the range on
  665. which the event fires may be cleared.</dd>
  666. <dt id="event_clear"><code><strong>"clear"</strong> (from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch})</code></dt>
  667. <dd>Fired when the range is cleared, either through cursor
  668. movement in combination
  669. with <a href="#mark_clearOnEnter"><code>clearOnEnter</code></a>
  670. or through a call to its <code>clear()</code> method. Will only
  671. be fired once per handle. Note that deleting the range through
  672. text editing does not fire this event, because an undo action
  673. might bring the range back into existence. <code>from</code>
  674. and <code>to</code> give the part of the document that the range
  675. spanned when it was cleared.</dd>
  676. <dt id="event_hide"><code><strong>"hide"</strong> ()</code></dt>
  677. <dd>Fired when the last part of the marker is removed from the
  678. document by editing operations.</dd>
  679. <dt id="event_unhide"><code><strong>"unhide"</strong> ()</code></dt>
  680. <dd>Fired when, after the marker was removed by editing, a undo
  681. operation brought the marker back.</dd>
  682. </dl>
  683. <p>Line widgets (<code>CodeMirror.LineWidget</code>), returned
  684. by <a href="#addLineWidget"><code>addLineWidget</code></a>, fire
  685. these events:</p>
  686. <dl>
  687. <dt id="event_redraw"><code><strong>"redraw"</strong> ()</code></dt>
  688. <dd>Fired whenever the editor re-adds the widget to the DOM.
  689. This will happen once right after the widget is added (if it is
  690. scrolled into view), and then again whenever it is scrolled out
  691. of view and back in again, or when changes to the editor options
  692. or the line the widget is on require the widget to be
  693. redrawn.</dd>
  694. </dl>
  695. </section>
  696. <section id=keymaps>
  697. <h2>Key Maps</h2>
  698. <p>Key maps are ways to associate keys and mouse buttons with
  699. functionality. A key map is an object mapping strings that
  700. identify the buttons to functions that implement their
  701. functionality.</p>
  702. <p>The CodeMirror distributions comes
  703. with <a href="../demo/emacs.html">Emacs</a>, <a href="../demo/vim.html">Vim</a>,
  704. and <a href="../demo/sublime.html">Sublime Text</a>-style keymaps.</p>
  705. <p>Keys are identified either by name or by character.
  706. The <code>CodeMirror.keyNames</code> object defines names for
  707. common keys and associates them with their key codes. Examples of
  708. names defined here are <code>Enter</code>, <code>F5</code>,
  709. and <code>Q</code>. These can be prefixed
  710. with <code>Shift-</code>, <code>Cmd-</code>, <code>Ctrl-</code>,
  711. and <code>Alt-</code> to specify a modifier. So for
  712. example, <code>Shift-Ctrl-Space</code> would be a valid key
  713. identifier.</p>
  714. <p>Common example: map the Tab key to insert spaces instead of a tab
  715. character.</p>
  716. <pre data-lang="javascript">
  717. editor.setOption("extraKeys", {
  718. Tab: function(cm) {
  719. var spaces = Array(cm.getOption("indentUnit") + 1).join(" ");
  720. cm.replaceSelection(spaces);
  721. }
  722. });</pre>
  723. <p>Alternatively, a character can be specified directly by
  724. surrounding it in single quotes, for example <code>'$'</code>
  725. or <code>'q'</code>. Due to limitations in the way browsers fire
  726. key events, these may not be prefixed with modifiers.</p>
  727. <p>To bind mouse buttons, use the names `LeftClick`,
  728. `MiddleClick`, and `RightClick`. These can also be prefixed with
  729. modifiers, and in addition, the word `Double` or `Triple` can be
  730. put before `Click` (as in `LeftDoubleClick`) to bind a double- or
  731. triple-click. The function for such a binding is passed the
  732. position that was clicked as second argument.</p>
  733. <p id="normalizeKeyMap">Multi-stroke key bindings can be specified
  734. by separating the key names by spaces in the property name, for
  735. example <code>Ctrl-X Ctrl-V</code>. When a map contains
  736. multi-stoke bindings or keys with modifiers that are not specified
  737. in the default order (<code>Shift-Cmd-Ctrl-Alt</code>), you must
  738. call <code>CodeMirror.normalizeKeyMap</code> on it before it can
  739. be used. This function takes a keymap and modifies it to normalize
  740. modifier order and properly recognize multi-stroke bindings. It
  741. will return the keymap itself.</p>
  742. <p>The <code>CodeMirror.keyMap</code> object associates key maps
  743. with names. User code and key map definitions can assign extra
  744. properties to this object. Anywhere where a key map is expected, a
  745. string can be given, which will be looked up in this object. It
  746. also contains the <code>"default"</code> key map holding the
  747. default bindings.</p>
  748. <p>The values of properties in key maps can be either functions of
  749. a single argument (the CodeMirror instance), strings, or
  750. <code>false</code>. Strings refer
  751. to <a href="#commands">commands</a>, which are described below. If
  752. the property is set to <code>false</code>, CodeMirror leaves
  753. handling of the key up to the browser. A key handler function may
  754. return <code>CodeMirror.Pass</code> to indicate that it has
  755. decided not to handle the key, and other handlers (or the default
  756. behavior) should be given a turn.</p>
  757. <p>Keys mapped to command names that start with the
  758. characters <code>"go"</code> or to functions that have a
  759. truthy <code>motion</code> property (which should be used for
  760. cursor-movement actions) will be fired even when an
  761. extra <code>Shift</code> modifier is present (i.e. <code>"Up":
  762. "goLineUp"</code> matches both up and shift-up). This is used to
  763. easily implement shift-selection.</p>
  764. <p>Key maps can defer to each other by defining
  765. a <code>fallthrough</code> property. This indicates that when a
  766. key is not found in the map itself, one or more other maps should
  767. be searched. It can hold either a single key map or an array of
  768. key maps.</p>
  769. <p>When a key map needs to set something up when it becomes
  770. active, or tear something down when deactivated, it can
  771. contain <code>attach</code> and/or <code>detach</code> properties,
  772. which should hold functions that take the editor instance and the
  773. next or previous keymap. Note that this only works for the
  774. <a href="#option_keyMap">top-level keymap</a>, not for fallthrough
  775. maps or maps added
  776. with <a href="#option_extraKeys"><code>extraKeys</code></a>
  777. or <a href="#addKeyMap"><code>addKeyMap</code></a>.</p>
  778. </section>
  779. <section id=commands>
  780. <h2>Commands</h2>
  781. <p>Commands are parameter-less actions that can be performed on an
  782. editor. Their main use is for key bindings. Commands are defined by
  783. adding properties to the <code>CodeMirror.commands</code> object.
  784. A number of common commands are defined by the library itself,
  785. most of them used by the default key bindings. The value of a
  786. command property must be a function of one argument (an editor
  787. instance).</p>
  788. <p>Some of the commands below are referenced in the default
  789. key map, but not defined by the core library. These are intended to
  790. be defined by user code or addons.</p>
  791. <p>Commands can also be run with
  792. the <a href="#execCommand"><code>execCommand</code></a>
  793. method.</p>
  794. <dl>
  795. <dt class=command id=command_selectAll><code><strong>selectAll</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-A (PC), Cmd-A (Mac)</span></dt>
  796. <dd>Select the whole content of the editor.</dd>
  797. <dt class=command id=command_singleSelection><code><strong>singleSelection</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Esc</span></dt>
  798. <dd>When multiple selections are present, this deselects all but
  799. the primary selection.</dd>
  800. <dt class=command id=command_killLine><code><strong>killLine</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-K (Mac)</span></dt>
  801. <dd>Emacs-style line killing. Deletes the part of the line after
  802. the cursor. If that consists only of whitespace, the newline at
  803. the end of the line is also deleted.</dd>
  804. <dt class=command id=command_deleteLine><code><strong>deleteLine</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-D (PC), Cmd-D (Mac)</span></dt>
  805. <dd>Deletes the whole line under the cursor, including newline at the end.</dd>
  806. <dt class=command id=command_delLineLeft><code><strong>delLineLeft</strong></code></dt>
  807. <dd>Delete the part of the line before the cursor.</dd>
  808. <dt class=command id=command_delWrappedLineLeft><code><strong>delWrappedLineLeft</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Cmd-Backspace (Mac)</span></dt>
  809. <dd>Delete the part of the line from the left side of the visual line the cursor is on to the cursor.</dd>
  810. <dt class=command id=command_delWrappedLineRight><code><strong>delWrappedLineRight</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Cmd-Delete (Mac)</span></dt>
  811. <dd>Delete the part of the line from the cursor to the right side of the visual line the cursor is on.</dd>
  812. <dt class=command id=command_undo><code><strong>undo</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-Z (PC), Cmd-Z (Mac)</span></dt>
  813. <dd>Undo the last change. Note that, because browsers still
  814. don't make it possible for scripts to react to or customize the
  815. context menu, selecting undo (or redo) from the context menu in
  816. a CodeMirror instance does not work.</dd>
  817. <dt class=command id=command_redo><code><strong>redo</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-Y (PC), Shift-Cmd-Z (Mac), Cmd-Y (Mac)</span></dt>
  818. <dd>Redo the last undone change.</dd>
  819. <dt class=command id=command_undoSelection><code><strong>undoSelection</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-U (PC), Cmd-U (Mac)</span></dt>
  820. <dd>Undo the last change to the selection, or if there are no
  821. selection-only changes at the top of the history, undo the last
  822. change.</dd>
  823. <dt class=command id=command_redoSelection><code><strong>redoSelection</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Alt-U (PC), Shift-Cmd-U (Mac)</span></dt>
  824. <dd>Redo the last change to the selection, or the last text change if
  825. no selection changes remain.</dd>
  826. <dt class=command id=command_goDocStart><code><strong>goDocStart</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-Home (PC), Cmd-Up (Mac), Cmd-Home (Mac)</span></dt>
  827. <dd>Move the cursor to the start of the document.</dd>
  828. <dt class=command id=command_goDocEnd><code><strong>goDocEnd</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-End (PC), Cmd-End (Mac), Cmd-Down (Mac)</span></dt>
  829. <dd>Move the cursor to the end of the document.</dd>
  830. <dt class=command id=command_goLineStart><code><strong>goLineStart</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Alt-Left (PC), Ctrl-A (Mac)</span></dt>
  831. <dd>Move the cursor to the start of the line.</dd>
  832. <dt class=command id=command_goLineStartSmart><code><strong>goLineStartSmart</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Home</span></dt>
  833. <dd>Move to the start of the text on the line, or if we are
  834. already there, to the actual start of the line (including
  835. whitespace).</dd>
  836. <dt class=command id=command_goLineEnd><code><strong>goLineEnd</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Alt-Right (PC), Ctrl-E (Mac)</span></dt>
  837. <dd>Move the cursor to the end of the line.</dd>
  838. <dt class=command id=command_goLineRight><code><strong>goLineRight</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Cmd-Right (Mac)</span></dt>
  839. <dd>Move the cursor to the right side of the visual line it is on.</dd>
  840. <dt class=command id=command_goLineLeft><code><strong>goLineLeft</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Cmd-Left (Mac)</span></dt>
  841. <dd>Move the cursor to the left side of the visual line it is on. If
  842. this line is wrapped, that may not be the start of the line.</dd>
  843. <dt class=command id=command_goLineLeftSmart><code><strong>goLineLeftSmart</strong></code></dt>
  844. <dd>Move the cursor to the left side of the visual line it is
  845. on. If that takes it to the start of the line, behave
  846. like <a href="#command_goLineStartSmart"><code>goLineStartSmart</code></a>.</dd>
  847. <dt class=command id=command_goLineUp><code><strong>goLineUp</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Up, Ctrl-P (Mac)</span></dt>
  848. <dd>Move the cursor up one line.</dd>
  849. <dt class=command id=command_goLineDown><code><strong>goLineDown</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Down, Ctrl-N (Mac)</span></dt>
  850. <dd>Move down one line.</dd>
  851. <dt class=command id=command_goPageUp><code><strong>goPageUp</strong></code><span class=keybinding>PageUp, Shift-Ctrl-V (Mac)</span></dt>
  852. <dd>Move the cursor up one screen, and scroll up by the same distance.</dd>
  853. <dt class=command id=command_goPageDown><code><strong>goPageDown</strong></code><span class=keybinding>PageDown, Ctrl-V (Mac)</span></dt>
  854. <dd>Move the cursor down one screen, and scroll down by the same distance.</dd>
  855. <dt class=command id=command_goCharLeft><code><strong>goCharLeft</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Left, Ctrl-B (Mac)</span></dt>
  856. <dd>Move the cursor one character left, going to the previous line
  857. when hitting the start of line.</dd>
  858. <dt class=command id=command_goCharRight><code><strong>goCharRight</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Right, Ctrl-F (Mac)</span></dt>
  859. <dd>Move the cursor one character right, going to the next line
  860. when hitting the end of line.</dd>
  861. <dt class=command id=command_goColumnLeft><code><strong>goColumnLeft</strong></code></dt>
  862. <dd>Move the cursor one character left, but don't cross line boundaries.</dd>
  863. <dt class=command id=command_goColumnRight><code><strong>goColumnRight</strong></code></dt>
  864. <dd>Move the cursor one character right, don't cross line boundaries.</dd>
  865. <dt class=command id=command_goWordLeft><code><strong>goWordLeft</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Alt-B (Mac)</span></dt>
  866. <dd>Move the cursor to the start of the previous word.</dd>
  867. <dt class=command id=command_goWordRight><code><strong>goWordRight</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Alt-F (Mac)</span></dt>
  868. <dd>Move the cursor to the end of the next word.</dd>
  869. <dt class=command id=command_goGroupLeft><code><strong>goGroupLeft</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-Left (PC), Alt-Left (Mac)</span></dt>
  870. <dd>Move to the left of the group before the cursor. A group is
  871. a stretch of word characters, a stretch of punctuation
  872. characters, a newline, or a stretch of <em>more than one</em>
  873. whitespace character.</dd>
  874. <dt class=command id=command_goGroupRight><code><strong>goGroupRight</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-Right (PC), Alt-Right (Mac)</span></dt>
  875. <dd>Move to the right of the group after the cursor
  876. (see <a href="#command_goGroupLeft">above</a>).</dd>
  877. <dt class=command id=command_delCharBefore><code><strong>delCharBefore</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Shift-Backspace, Ctrl-H (Mac)</span></dt>
  878. <dd>Delete the character before the cursor.</dd>
  879. <dt class=command id=command_delCharAfter><code><strong>delCharAfter</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Delete, Ctrl-D (Mac)</span></dt>
  880. <dd>Delete the character after the cursor.</dd>
  881. <dt class=command id=command_delWordBefore><code><strong>delWordBefore</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Alt-Backspace (Mac)</span></dt>
  882. <dd>Delete up to the start of the word before the cursor.</dd>
  883. <dt class=command id=command_delWordAfter><code><strong>delWordAfter</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Alt-D (Mac)</span></dt>
  884. <dd>Delete up to the end of the word after the cursor.</dd>
  885. <dt class=command id=command_delGroupBefore><code><strong>delGroupBefore</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-Backspace (PC), Alt-Backspace (Mac)</span></dt>
  886. <dd>Delete to the left of the <a href="#command_goGroupLeft">group</a> before the cursor.</dd>
  887. <dt class=command id=command_delGroupAfter><code><strong>delGroupAfter</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-Delete (PC), Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (Mac), Alt-Delete (Mac)</span></dt>
  888. <dd>Delete to the start of the <a href="#command_goGroupLeft">group</a> after the cursor.</dd>
  889. <dt class=command id=command_indentAuto><code><strong>indentAuto</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Shift-Tab</span></dt>
  890. <dd>Auto-indent the current line or selection.</dd>
  891. <dt class=command id=command_indentMore><code><strong>indentMore</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-] (PC), Cmd-] (Mac)</span></dt>
  892. <dd>Indent the current line or selection by one <a href="#option_indentUnit">indent unit</a>.</dd>
  893. <dt class=command id=command_indentLess><code><strong>indentLess</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-[ (PC), Cmd-[ (Mac)</span></dt>
  894. <dd>Dedent the current line or selection by one <a href="#option_indentUnit">indent unit</a>.</dd>
  895. <dt class=command id=command_insertTab><code><strong>insertTab</strong></code></dt>
  896. <dd>Insert a tab character at the cursor.</dd>
  897. <dt class=command id=command_insertSoftTab><code><strong>insertSoftTab</strong></code></dt>
  898. <dd>Insert the amount of spaces that match the width a tab at
  899. the cursor position would have.</dd>
  900. <dt class=command id=command_defaultTab><code><strong>defaultTab</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Tab</span></dt>
  901. <dd>If something is selected, indent it by
  902. one <a href="#option_indentUnit">indent unit</a>. If nothing is
  903. selected, insert a tab character.</dd>
  904. <dt class=command id=command_transposeChars><code><strong>transposeChars</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-T (Mac)</span></dt>
  905. <dd>Swap the characters before and after the cursor.</dd>
  906. <dt class=command id=command_newlineAndIndent><code><strong>newlineAndIndent</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Enter</span></dt>
  907. <dd>Insert a newline and auto-indent the new line.</dd>
  908. <dt class=command id=command_toggleOverwrite><code><strong>toggleOverwrite</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Insert</span></dt>
  909. <dd>Flip the <a href="#toggleOverwrite">overwrite</a> flag.</dd>
  910. <dt class=command id=command_save><code><strong>save</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-S (PC), Cmd-S (Mac)</span></dt>
  911. <dd>Not defined by the core library, only referred to in
  912. key maps. Intended to provide an easy way for user code to define
  913. a save command.</dd>
  914. <dt class=command id=command_find><code><strong>find</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-F (PC), Cmd-F (Mac)</span></dt>
  915. <dt class=command id=command_findNext><code><strong>findNext</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Ctrl-G (PC), Cmd-G (Mac)</span></dt>
  916. <dt class=command id=command_findPrev><code><strong>findPrev</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Shift-Ctrl-G (PC), Shift-Cmd-G (Mac)</span></dt>
  917. <dt class=command id=command_replace><code><strong>replace</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Shift-Ctrl-F (PC), Cmd-Alt-F (Mac)</span></dt>
  918. <dt class=command id=command_replaceAll><code><strong>replaceAll</strong></code><span class=keybinding>Shift-Ctrl-R (PC), Shift-Cmd-Alt-F (Mac)</span></dt>
  919. <dd>Not defined by the core library, but defined in
  920. the <a href="#addon_search">search addon</a> (or custom client
  921. addons).</dd>
  922. </dl>
  923. </section>
  924. <section id=styling>
  925. <h2>Customized Styling</h2>
  926. <p>Up to a certain extent, CodeMirror's look can be changed by
  927. modifying style sheet files. The style sheets supplied by modes
  928. simply provide the colors for that mode, and can be adapted in a
  929. very straightforward way. To style the editor itself, it is
  930. possible to alter or override the styles defined
  931. in <a href="../lib/codemirror.css"><code>codemirror.css</code></a>.</p>
  932. <p>Some care must be taken there, since a lot of the rules in this
  933. file are necessary to have CodeMirror function properly. Adjusting
  934. colors should be safe, of course, and with some care a lot of
  935. other things can be changed as well. The CSS classes defined in
  936. this file serve the following roles:</p>
  937. <dl>
  938. <dt id="class_CodeMirror"><code><strong>CodeMirror</strong></code></dt>
  939. <dd>The outer element of the editor. This should be used for the
  940. editor width, height, borders and positioning. Can also be used
  941. to set styles that should hold for everything inside the editor
  942. (such as font and font size), or to set a background. Setting
  943. this class' <code>height</code> style to <code>auto</code> will
  944. make the editor <a href="../demo/resize.html">resize to fit its
  945. content</a> (it is recommended to also set
  946. the <a href="#option_viewportMargin"><code>viewportMargin</code>
  947. option</a> to <code>Infinity</code> when doing this.</dd>
  948. <dt id="class_CodeMirror_focused"><code><strong>CodeMirror-focused</strong></code></dt>
  949. <dd>Whenever the editor is focused, the top element gets this
  950. class. This is used to hide the cursor and give the selection a
  951. different color when the editor is not focused.</dd>
  952. <dt id="class_CodeMirror_gutters"><code><strong>CodeMirror-gutters</strong></code></dt>
  953. <dd>This is the backdrop for all gutters. Use it to set the
  954. default gutter background color, and optionally add a border on
  955. the right of the gutters.</dd>
  956. <dt id="class_CodeMirror_linenumbers"><code><strong>CodeMirror-linenumbers</strong></code></dt>
  957. <dd>Use this for giving a background or width to the line number
  958. gutter.</dd>
  959. <dt id="class_CodeMirror_linenumber"><code><strong>CodeMirror-linenumber</strong></code></dt>
  960. <dd>Used to style the actual individual line numbers. These
  961. won't be children of the <code>CodeMirror-linenumbers</code>
  962. (plural) element, but rather will be absolutely positioned to
  963. overlay it. Use this to set alignment and text properties for
  964. the line numbers.</dd>
  965. <dt id="class_CodeMirror_lines"><code><strong>CodeMirror-lines</strong></code></dt>
  966. <dd>The visible lines. This is where you specify vertical
  967. padding for the editor content.</dd>
  968. <dt id="class_CodeMirror_cursor"><code><strong>CodeMirror-cursor</strong></code></dt>
  969. <dd>The cursor is a block element that is absolutely positioned.
  970. You can make it look whichever way you want.</dd>
  971. <dt id="class_CodeMirror_selected"><code><strong>CodeMirror-selected</strong></code></dt>
  972. <dd>The selection is represented by <code>span</code> elements
  973. with this class.</dd>
  974. <dt id="class_CodeMirror_matchingbracket"><code><strong>CodeMirror-matchingbracket</strong></code>,
  975. <code><strong>CodeMirror-nonmatchingbracket</strong></code></dt>
  976. <dd>These are used to style matched (or unmatched) brackets.</dd>
  977. </dl>
  978. <p>If your page's style sheets do funky things to
  979. all <code>div</code> or <code>pre</code> elements (you probably
  980. shouldn't do that), you'll have to define rules to cancel these
  981. effects out again for elements under the <code>CodeMirror</code>
  982. class.</p>
  983. <p>Themes are also simply CSS files, which define colors for
  984. various syntactic elements. See the files in
  985. the <a href="../theme/"><code>theme</code></a> directory.</p>
  986. </section>
  987. <section id=api>
  988. <h2>Programming API</h2>
  989. <p>A lot of CodeMirror features are only available through its
  990. API. Thus, you need to write code (or
  991. use <a href="#addons">addons</a>) if you want to expose them to
  992. your users.</p>
  993. <p>Whenever points in the document are represented, the API uses
  994. objects with <code>line</code> and <code>ch</code> properties.
  995. Both are zero-based. CodeMirror makes sure to 'clip' any positions
  996. passed by client code so that they fit inside the document, so you
  997. shouldn't worry too much about sanitizing your coordinates. If you
  998. give <code>ch</code> a value of <code>null</code>, or don't
  999. specify it, it will be replaced with the length of the specified
  1000. line. Such positions may also have a <code>sticky</code> property
  1001. holding <code>"before"</code> or <code>"after"</code>, whether the
  1002. position is associated with the character before or after it. This
  1003. influences, for example, where the cursor is drawn on a
  1004. line-break or bidi-direction boundary.</p>
  1005. <p>Methods prefixed with <code>doc.</code> can, unless otherwise
  1006. specified, be called both on <code>CodeMirror</code> (editor)
  1007. instances and <code>CodeMirror.Doc</code> instances. Methods
  1008. prefixed with <code>cm.</code> are <em>only</em> available
  1009. on <code>CodeMirror</code> instances.</p>
  1010. <h3 id="api_constructor">Constructor</h3>
  1011. <p id="CodeMirror">Constructing an editor instance is done with
  1012. the <code><strong>CodeMirror</strong>(place: Element|fn(Element),
  1013. ?option: object)</code> constructor. If the <code>place</code>
  1014. argument is a DOM element, the editor will be appended to it. If
  1015. it is a function, it will be called, and is expected to place the
  1016. editor into the document. <code>options</code> may be an element
  1017. mapping <a href="#config">option names</a> to values. The options
  1018. that it doesn't explicitly specify (or all options, if it is not
  1019. passed) will be taken
  1020. from <a href="#defaults"><code>CodeMirror.defaults</code></a>.</p>
  1021. <p>Note that the options object passed to the constructor will be
  1022. mutated when the instance's options
  1023. are <a href="#setOption">changed</a>, so you shouldn't share such
  1024. objects between instances.</p>
  1025. <p>See <a href="#fromTextArea"><code>CodeMirror.fromTextArea</code></a>
  1026. for another way to construct an editor instance.</p>
  1027. <h3 id="api_content">Content manipulation methods</h3>
  1028. <dl>
  1029. <dt id="getValue"><code><strong>doc.getValue</strong>(?separator: string) → string</code></dt>
  1030. <dd>Get the current editor content. You can pass it an optional
  1031. argument to specify the string to be used to separate lines
  1032. (defaults to <code>"\n"</code>).</dd>
  1033. <dt id="setValue"><code><strong>doc.setValue</strong>(content: string)</code></dt>
  1034. <dd>Set the editor content.</dd>
  1035. <dt id="getRange"><code><strong>doc.getRange</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?separator: string) → string</code></dt>
  1036. <dd>Get the text between the given points in the editor, which
  1037. should be <code>{line, ch}</code> objects. An optional third
  1038. argument can be given to indicate the line separator string to
  1039. use (defaults to <code>"\n"</code>).</dd>
  1040. <dt id="replaceRange"><code><strong>doc.replaceRange</strong>(replacement: string, from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?origin: string)</code></dt>
  1041. <dd>Replace the part of the document between <code>from</code>
  1042. and <code>to</code> with the given string. <code>from</code>
  1043. and <code>to</code> must be <code>{line, ch}</code>
  1044. objects. <code>to</code> can be left off to simply insert the
  1045. string at position <code>from</code>. When <code>origin</code>
  1046. is given, it will be passed on
  1047. to <a href="#event_change"><code>"change"</code> events</a>, and
  1048. its first letter will be used to determine whether this change
  1049. can be merged with previous history events, in the way described
  1050. for <a href="#selection_origin">selection origins</a>.</dd>
  1051. <dt id="getLine"><code><strong>doc.getLine</strong>(n: integer) → string</code></dt>
  1052. <dd>Get the content of line <code>n</code>.</dd>
  1053. <dt id="lineCount"><code><strong>doc.lineCount</strong>() → integer</code></dt>
  1054. <dd>Get the number of lines in the editor.</dd>
  1055. <dt id="firstLine"><code><strong>doc.firstLine</strong>() → integer</code></dt>
  1056. <dd>Get the first line of the editor. This will
  1057. usually be zero but for <a href="#linkedDoc_from">linked sub-views</a>,
  1058. or <a href="#api_doc">documents</a> instantiated with a non-zero
  1059. first line, it might return other values.</dd>
  1060. <dt id="lastLine"><code><strong>doc.lastLine</strong>() → integer</code></dt>
  1061. <dd>Get the last line of the editor. This will
  1062. usually be <code>doc.lineCount() - 1</code>,
  1063. but for <a href="#linkedDoc_from">linked sub-views</a>,
  1064. it might return other values.</dd>
  1065. <dt id="getLineHandle"><code><strong>doc.getLineHandle</strong>(num: integer) → LineHandle</code></dt>
  1066. <dd>Fetches the line handle for the given line number.</dd>
  1067. <dt id="getLineNumber"><code><strong>doc.getLineNumber</strong>(handle: LineHandle) → integer</code></dt>
  1068. <dd>Given a line handle, returns the current position of that
  1069. line (or <code>null</code> when it is no longer in the
  1070. document).</dd>
  1071. <dt id="eachLine"><code><strong>doc.eachLine</strong>(f: (line: LineHandle))</code></dt>
  1072. <dt><code><strong>doc.eachLine</strong>(start: integer, end: integer, f: (line: LineHandle))</code></dt>
  1073. <dd>Iterate over the whole document, or if <code>start</code>
  1074. and <code>end</code> line numbers are given, the range
  1075. from <code>start</code> up to (not including) <code>end</code>,
  1076. and call <code>f</code> for each line, passing the line handle.
  1077. This is a faster way to visit a range of line handlers than
  1078. calling <a href="#getLineHandle"><code>getLineHandle</code></a>
  1079. for each of them. Note that line handles have
  1080. a <code>text</code> property containing the line's content (as a
  1081. string).</dd>
  1082. <dt id="markClean"><code><strong>doc.markClean</strong>()</code></dt>
  1083. <dd>Set the editor content as 'clean', a flag that it will
  1084. retain until it is edited, and which will be set again when such
  1085. an edit is undone again. Useful to track whether the content
  1086. needs to be saved. This function is deprecated in favor
  1087. of <a href="#changeGeneration"><code>changeGeneration</code></a>,
  1088. which allows multiple subsystems to track different notions of
  1089. cleanness without interfering.</dd>
  1090. <dt id="changeGeneration"><code><strong>doc.changeGeneration</strong>(?closeEvent: boolean) → integer</code></dt>
  1091. <dd>Returns a number that can later be passed
  1092. to <a href="#isClean"><code>isClean</code></a> to test whether
  1093. any edits were made (and not undone) in the meantime.
  1094. If <code>closeEvent</code> is true, the current history event
  1095. will be ‘closed’, meaning it can't be combined with further
  1096. changes (rapid typing or deleting events are typically
  1097. combined).</dd>
  1098. <dt id="isClean"><code><strong>doc.isClean</strong>(?generation: integer) → boolean</code></dt>
  1099. <dd>Returns whether the document is currently clean — not
  1100. modified since initialization or the last call
  1101. to <a href="#markClean"><code>markClean</code></a> if no
  1102. argument is passed, or since the matching call
  1103. to <a href="#changeGeneration"><code>changeGeneration</code></a>
  1104. if a generation value is given.</dd>
  1105. </dl>
  1106. <h3 id="api_selection">Cursor and selection methods</h3>
  1107. <dl>
  1108. <dt id="getSelection"><code><strong>doc.getSelection</strong>(?lineSep: string) → string</code></dt>
  1109. <dd>Get the currently selected code. Optionally pass a line
  1110. separator to put between the lines in the output. When multiple
  1111. selections are present, they are concatenated with instances
  1112. of <code>lineSep</code> in between.</dd>
  1113. <dt id="getSelections"><code><strong>doc.getSelections</strong>(?lineSep: string) → array&lt;string&gt;</code></dt>
  1114. <dd>Returns an array containing a string for each selection,
  1115. representing the content of the selections.</dd>
  1116. <dt id="replaceSelection"><code><strong>doc.replaceSelection</strong>(replacement: string, ?select: string)</code></dt>
  1117. <dd>Replace the selection(s) with the given string. By default,
  1118. the new selection ends up after the inserted text. The
  1119. optional <code>select</code> argument can be used to change
  1120. this—passing <code>"around"</code> will cause the new text to be
  1121. selected, passing <code>"start"</code> will collapse the
  1122. selection to the start of the inserted text.</dd>
  1123. <dt id="replaceSelections"><code><strong>doc.replaceSelections</strong>(replacements: array&lt;string&gt;, ?select: string)</code></dt>
  1124. <dd>The length of the given array should be the same as the
  1125. number of active selections. Replaces the content of the
  1126. selections with the strings in the array.
  1127. The <code>select</code> argument works the same as
  1128. in <a href="#replaceSelection"><code>replaceSelection</code></a>.</dd>
  1129. <dt id="getCursor"><code><strong>doc.getCursor</strong>(?start: string) → {line, ch}</code></dt>
  1130. <dd>Retrieve one end of the <em>primary</em>
  1131. selection. <code>start</code> is an optional string indicating
  1132. which end of the selection to return. It may
  1133. be <code>"from"</code>, <code>"to"</code>, <code>"head"</code>
  1134. (the side of the selection that moves when you press
  1135. shift+arrow), or <code>"anchor"</code> (the fixed side of the
  1136. selection). Omitting the argument is the same as
  1137. passing <code>"head"</code>. A <code>{line, ch}</code> object
  1138. will be returned.</dd>
  1139. <dt id="listSelections"><code><strong>doc.listSelections</strong>() → array&lt;{anchor, head}&gt;</code></dt>
  1140. <dd>Retrieves a list of all current selections. These will
  1141. always be sorted, and never overlap (overlapping selections are
  1142. merged). Each object in the array contains <code>anchor</code>
  1143. and <code>head</code> properties referring to <code>{line,
  1144. ch}</code> objects.</dd>
  1145. <dt id="somethingSelected"><code><strong>doc.somethingSelected</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  1146. <dd>Return true if any text is selected.</dd>
  1147. <dt id="setCursor"><code><strong>doc.setCursor</strong>(pos: {line, ch}|number, ?ch: number, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  1148. <dd>Set the cursor position. You can either pass a
  1149. single <code>{line, ch}</code> object, or the line and the
  1150. character as two separate parameters. Will replace all
  1151. selections with a single, empty selection at the given position.
  1152. The supported options are the same as for <a href="#setSelection"><code>setSelection</code></a>.</dd>
  1153. <dt id="setSelection"><code><strong>doc.setSelection</strong>(anchor: {line, ch}, ?head: {line, ch}, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  1154. <dd>Set a single selection range. <code>anchor</code>
  1155. and <code>head</code> should be <code>{line, ch}</code>
  1156. objects. <code>head</code> defaults to <code>anchor</code> when
  1157. not given. These options are supported:
  1158. <dl>
  1159. <dt id="selection_scroll"><code><strong>scroll</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1160. <dd>Determines whether the selection head should be scrolled
  1161. into view. Defaults to true.</dd>
  1162. <dt id="selection_origin"><code><strong>origin</strong>: string</code></dt>
  1163. <dd>Determines whether the selection history event may be
  1164. merged with the previous one. When an origin starts with the
  1165. character <code>+</code>, and the last recorded selection had
  1166. the same origin and was similar (close
  1167. in <a href="#option_historyEventDelay">time</a>, both
  1168. collapsed or both non-collapsed), the new one will replace the
  1169. old one. When it starts with <code>*</code>, it will always
  1170. replace the previous event (if that had the same origin).
  1171. Built-in motion uses the <code>"+move"</code> origin. User input uses the <code>"+input"</code> origin.</dd>
  1172. <dt id="selection_bias"><code><strong>bias</strong>: number</code></dt>
  1173. <dd>Determine the direction into which the selection endpoints
  1174. should be adjusted when they fall inside
  1175. an <a href="#mark_atomic">atomic</a> range. Can be either -1
  1176. (backward) or 1 (forward). When not given, the bias will be
  1177. based on the relative position of the old selection—the editor
  1178. will try to move further away from that, to prevent getting
  1179. stuck.</dd>
  1180. </dl></dd>
  1181. <dt id="setSelections"><code><strong>doc.setSelections</strong>(ranges: array&lt;{anchor, head}&gt;, ?primary: integer, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  1182. <dd>Sets a new set of selections. There must be at least one
  1183. selection in the given array. When <code>primary</code> is a
  1184. number, it determines which selection is the primary one. When
  1185. it is not given, the primary index is taken from the previous
  1186. selection, or set to the last range if the previous selection
  1187. had less ranges than the new one. Supports the same options
  1188. as <a href="#setSelection"><code>setSelection</code></a>.</dd>
  1189. <dt id="addSelection"><code><strong>doc.addSelection</strong>(anchor: {line, ch}, ?head: {line, ch})</code></dt>
  1190. <dd>Adds a new selection to the existing set of selections, and
  1191. makes it the primary selection.</dd>
  1192. <dt id="extendSelection"><code><strong>doc.extendSelection</strong>(from: {line, ch}, ?to: {line, ch}, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  1193. <dd>Similar
  1194. to <a href="#setSelection"><code>setSelection</code></a>, but
  1195. will, if shift is held or
  1196. the <a href="#setExtending">extending</a> flag is set, move the
  1197. head of the selection while leaving the anchor at its current
  1198. place. <code>to</code> is optional, and can be passed to ensure
  1199. a region (for example a word or paragraph) will end up selected
  1200. (in addition to whatever lies between that region and the
  1201. current anchor). When multiple selections are present, all but
  1202. the primary selection will be dropped by this method.
  1203. Supports the same options as <a href="#setSelection"><code>setSelection</code></a>.</dd>
  1204. <dt id="extendSelections"><code><strong>doc.extendSelections</strong>(heads: array&lt;{line, ch}&gt;, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  1205. <dd>An equivalent
  1206. of <a href="#extendSelection"><code>extendSelection</code></a>
  1207. that acts on all selections at once.</dd>
  1208. <dt id="extendSelectionsBy"><code><strong>doc.extendSelectionsBy</strong>(f: function(range: {anchor, head}) → {line, ch}), ?options: object)</code></dt>
  1209. <dd>Applies the given function to all existing selections, and
  1210. calls <a href="#extendSelections"><code>extendSelections</code></a>
  1211. on the result.</dd>
  1212. <dt id="setExtending"><code><strong>doc.setExtending</strong>(value: boolean)</code></dt>
  1213. <dd>Sets or clears the 'extending' flag, which acts similar to
  1214. the shift key, in that it will cause cursor movement and calls
  1215. to <a href="#extendSelection"><code>extendSelection</code></a>
  1216. to leave the selection anchor in place.</dd>
  1217. <dt id="getExtending"><code><strong>doc.getExtending</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  1218. <dd>Get the value of the 'extending' flag.</dd>
  1219. <dt id="hasFocus"><code><strong>cm.hasFocus</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  1220. <dd>Tells you whether the editor currently has focus.</dd>
  1221. <dt id="findPosH"><code><strong>cm.findPosH</strong>(start: {line, ch}, amount: integer, unit: string, visually: boolean) → {line, ch, ?hitSide: boolean}</code></dt>
  1222. <dd>Used to find the target position for horizontal cursor
  1223. motion. <code>start</code> is a <code>{line, ch}</code>
  1224. object, <code>amount</code> an integer (may be negative),
  1225. and <code>unit</code> one of the
  1226. string <code>"char"</code>, <code>"column"</code>,
  1227. or <code>"word"</code>. Will return a position that is produced
  1228. by moving <code>amount</code> times the distance specified
  1229. by <code>unit</code>. When <code>visually</code> is true, motion
  1230. in right-to-left text will be visual rather than logical. When
  1231. the motion was clipped by hitting the end or start of the
  1232. document, the returned value will have a <code>hitSide</code>
  1233. property set to true.</dd>
  1234. <dt id="findPosV"><code><strong>cm.findPosV</strong>(start: {line, ch}, amount: integer, unit: string) → {line, ch, ?hitSide: boolean}</code></dt>
  1235. <dd>Similar to <a href="#findPosH"><code>findPosH</code></a>,
  1236. but used for vertical motion. <code>unit</code> may
  1237. be <code>"line"</code> or <code>"page"</code>. The other
  1238. arguments and the returned value have the same interpretation as
  1239. they have in <code>findPosH</code>.</dd>
  1240. <dt id="findWordAt"><code><strong>cm.findWordAt</strong>(pos: {line, ch}) → {anchor: {line, ch}, head: {line, ch}}</code></dt>
  1241. <dd>Returns the start and end of the 'word' (the stretch of
  1242. letters, whitespace, or punctuation) at the given position.</dd>
  1243. </dl>
  1244. <h3 id="api_configuration">Configuration methods</h3>
  1245. <dl>
  1246. <dt id="setOption"><code><strong>cm.setOption</strong>(option: string, value: any)</code></dt>
  1247. <dd>Change the configuration of the editor. <code>option</code>
  1248. should the name of an <a href="#config">option</a>,
  1249. and <code>value</code> should be a valid value for that
  1250. option.</dd>
  1251. <dt id="getOption"><code><strong>cm.getOption</strong>(option: string) → any</code></dt>
  1252. <dd>Retrieves the current value of the given option for this
  1253. editor instance.</dd>
  1254. <dt id="addKeyMap"><code><strong>cm.addKeyMap</strong>(map: object, bottom: boolean)</code></dt>
  1255. <dd>Attach an additional <a href="#keymaps">key map</a> to the
  1256. editor. This is mostly useful for addons that need to register
  1257. some key handlers without trampling on
  1258. the <a href="#option_extraKeys"><code>extraKeys</code></a>
  1259. option. Maps added in this way have a higher precedence than
  1260. the <code>extraKeys</code>
  1261. and <a href="#option_keyMap"><code>keyMap</code></a> options,
  1262. and between them, the maps added earlier have a lower precedence
  1263. than those added later, unless the <code>bottom</code> argument
  1264. was passed, in which case they end up below other key maps added
  1265. with this method.</dd>
  1266. <dt id="removeKeyMap"><code><strong>cm.removeKeyMap</strong>(map: object)</code></dt>
  1267. <dd>Disable a keymap added
  1268. with <a href="#addKeyMap"><code>addKeyMap</code></a>. Either
  1269. pass in the key map object itself, or a string, which will be
  1270. compared against the <code>name</code> property of the active
  1271. key maps.</dd>
  1272. <dt id="addOverlay"><code><strong>cm.addOverlay</strong>(mode: string|object, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  1273. <dd>Enable a highlighting overlay. This is a stateless mini-mode
  1274. that can be used to add extra highlighting. For example,
  1275. the <a href="../demo/search.html">search addon</a> uses it to
  1276. highlight the term that's currently being
  1277. searched. <code>mode</code> can be a <a href="#option_mode">mode
  1278. spec</a> or a mode object (an object with
  1279. a <a href="#token"><code>token</code></a> method).
  1280. The <code>options</code> parameter is optional. If given, it
  1281. should be an object, optionally containing the following options:
  1282. <dl>
  1283. <dt><code><strong>opaque</strong>: bool</code></dt>
  1284. <dd>Defaults to off, but can be given to allow the overlay
  1285. styling, when not <code>null</code>, to override the styling of
  1286. the base mode entirely, instead of the two being applied
  1287. together.</dd>
  1288. <dt><code><strong>priority</strong>: number</code></dt>
  1289. <dd>Determines the ordering in which the overlays are
  1290. applied. Those with high priority are applied after those
  1291. with lower priority, and able to override the opaqueness of
  1292. the ones that come before. Defaults to 0.</dd>
  1293. </dl>
  1294. </dd>
  1295. <dt id="removeOverlay"><code><strong>cm.removeOverlay</strong>(mode: string|object)</code></dt>
  1296. <dd>Pass this the exact value passed for the <code>mode</code>
  1297. parameter to <a href="#addOverlay"><code>addOverlay</code></a>,
  1298. or a string that corresponds to the <code>name</code> property of
  1299. that value, to remove an overlay again.</dd>
  1300. <dt id="on"><code><strong>cm.on</strong>(type: string, func: (...args))</code></dt>
  1301. <dd>Register an event handler for the given event type (a
  1302. string) on the editor instance. There is also
  1303. a <code>CodeMirror.on(object, type, func)</code> version
  1304. that allows registering of events on any object.</dd>
  1305. <dt id="off"><code><strong>cm.off</strong>(type: string, func: (...args))</code></dt>
  1306. <dd>Remove an event handler on the editor instance. An
  1307. equivalent <code>CodeMirror.off(object, type,
  1308. func)</code> also exists.</dd>
  1309. </dl>
  1310. <h3 id="api_doc">Document management methods</h3>
  1311. <p id="Doc">Each editor is associated with an instance
  1312. of <code>CodeMirror.Doc</code>, its document. A document
  1313. represents the editor content, plus a selection, an undo history,
  1314. and a <a href="#option_mode">mode</a>. A document can only be
  1315. associated with a single editor at a time. You can create new
  1316. documents by calling the <code>CodeMirror.Doc(text: string, mode:
  1317. Object, firstLineNumber: ?number, lineSeparator: ?string)</code>
  1318. constructor. The last three arguments are optional and can be used
  1319. to set a mode for the document, make it start at a line number
  1320. other than 0, and set a specific line separator respectively.</p>
  1321. <dl>
  1322. <dt id="getDoc"><code><strong>cm.getDoc</strong>() → Doc</code></dt>
  1323. <dd>Retrieve the currently active document from an editor.</dd>
  1324. <dt id="getEditor"><code><strong>doc.getEditor</strong>() → CodeMirror</code></dt>
  1325. <dd>Retrieve the editor associated with a document. May
  1326. return <code>null</code>.</dd>
  1327. <dt id="swapDoc"><code><strong>cm.swapDoc</strong>(doc: CodeMirror.Doc) → Doc</code></dt>
  1328. <dd>Attach a new document to the editor. Returns the old
  1329. document, which is now no longer associated with an editor.</dd>
  1330. <dt id="copy"><code><strong>doc.copy</strong>(copyHistory: boolean) → Doc</code></dt>
  1331. <dd>Create an identical copy of the given doc.
  1332. When <code>copyHistory</code> is true, the history will also be
  1333. copied. Can not be called directly on an editor.</dd>
  1334. <dt id="linkedDoc"><code><strong>doc.linkedDoc</strong>(options: object) → Doc</code></dt>
  1335. <dd>Create a new document that's linked to the target document.
  1336. Linked documents will stay in sync (changes to one are also
  1337. applied to the other) until <a href="#unlinkDoc">unlinked</a>.
  1338. These are the options that are supported:
  1339. <dl>
  1340. <dt id="linkedDoc_sharedHist"><code><strong>sharedHist</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1341. <dd>When turned on, the linked copy will share an undo
  1342. history with the original. Thus, something done in one of
  1343. the two can be undone in the other, and vice versa.</dd>
  1344. <dt id="linkedDoc_from"><code><strong>from</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  1345. <dt id="linkedDoc_to"><code><strong>to</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  1346. <dd>Can be given to make the new document a subview of the
  1347. original. Subviews only show a given range of lines. Note
  1348. that line coordinates inside the subview will be consistent
  1349. with those of the parent, so that for example a subview
  1350. starting at line 10 will refer to its first line as line 10,
  1351. not 0.</dd>
  1352. <dt id="linkedDoc_mode"><code><strong>mode</strong>: string|object</code></dt>
  1353. <dd>By default, the new document inherits the mode of the
  1354. parent. This option can be set to
  1355. a <a href="#option_mode">mode spec</a> to give it a
  1356. different mode.</dd>
  1357. </dl></dd>
  1358. <dt id="unlinkDoc"><code><strong>doc.unlinkDoc</strong>(doc: CodeMirror.Doc)</code></dt>
  1359. <dd>Break the link between two documents. After calling this,
  1360. changes will no longer propagate between the documents, and, if
  1361. they had a shared history, the history will become
  1362. separate.</dd>
  1363. <dt id="iterLinkedDocs"><code><strong>doc.iterLinkedDocs</strong>(function: (doc: CodeMirror.Doc, sharedHist: boolean))</code></dt>
  1364. <dd>Will call the given function for all documents linked to the
  1365. target document. It will be passed two arguments, the linked document
  1366. and a boolean indicating whether that document shares history
  1367. with the target.</dd>
  1368. </dl>
  1369. <h3 id="api_history">History-related methods</h3>
  1370. <dl>
  1371. <dt id="undo"><code><strong>doc.undo</strong>()</code></dt>
  1372. <dd>Undo one edit (if any undo events are stored).</dd>
  1373. <dt id="redo"><code><strong>doc.redo</strong>()</code></dt>
  1374. <dd>Redo one undone edit.</dd>
  1375. <dt id="undoSelection"><code><strong>doc.undoSelection</strong>()</code></dt>
  1376. <dd>Undo one edit or selection change.</dd>
  1377. <dt id="redoSelection"><code><strong>doc.redoSelection</strong>()</code></dt>
  1378. <dd>Redo one undone edit or selection change.</dd>
  1379. <dt id="historySize"><code><strong>doc.historySize</strong>() → {undo: integer, redo: integer}</code></dt>
  1380. <dd>Returns an object with <code>{undo, redo}</code> properties,
  1381. both of which hold integers, indicating the amount of stored
  1382. undo and redo operations.</dd>
  1383. <dt id="clearHistory"><code><strong>doc.clearHistory</strong>()</code></dt>
  1384. <dd>Clears the editor's undo history.</dd>
  1385. <dt id="getHistory"><code><strong>doc.getHistory</strong>() → object</code></dt>
  1386. <dd>Get a (JSON-serializable) representation of the undo history.</dd>
  1387. <dt id="setHistory"><code><strong>doc.setHistory</strong>(history: object)</code></dt>
  1388. <dd>Replace the editor's undo history with the one provided,
  1389. which must be a value as returned
  1390. by <a href="#getHistory"><code>getHistory</code></a>. Note that
  1391. this will have entirely undefined results if the editor content
  1392. isn't also the same as it was when <code>getHistory</code> was
  1393. called.</dd>
  1394. </dl>
  1395. <h3 id="api_marker">Text-marking methods</h3>
  1396. <dl>
  1397. <dt id="markText"><code><strong>doc.markText</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?options: object) → TextMarker</code></dt>
  1398. <dd>Can be used to mark a range of text with a specific CSS
  1399. class name. <code>from</code> and <code>to</code> should
  1400. be <code>{line, ch}</code> objects. The <code>options</code>
  1401. parameter is optional. When given, it should be an object that
  1402. may contain the following configuration options:
  1403. <dl>
  1404. <dt id="mark_className"><code><strong>className</strong>: string</code></dt>
  1405. <dd>Assigns a CSS class to the marked stretch of text.</dd>
  1406. <dt id="mark_inclusiveLeft"><code><strong>inclusiveLeft</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1407. <dd>Determines whether
  1408. text inserted on the left of the marker will end up inside
  1409. or outside of it.</dd>
  1410. <dt id="mark_inclusiveRight"><code><strong>inclusiveRight</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1411. <dd>Like <code>inclusiveLeft</code>,
  1412. but for the right side.</dd>
  1413. <dt id="mark_atomic"><code><strong>atomic</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1414. <dd>Atomic ranges act as a single unit when cursor movement is
  1415. concerned—i.e. it is impossible to place the cursor inside of
  1416. them. In atomic ranges, <code>inclusiveLeft</code>
  1417. and <code>inclusiveRight</code> have a different meaning—they
  1418. will prevent the cursor from being placed respectively
  1419. directly before and directly after the range.</dd>
  1420. <dt id="mark_collapsed"><code><strong>collapsed</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1421. <dd>Collapsed ranges do not show up in the display. Setting a
  1422. range to be collapsed will automatically make it atomic.</dd>
  1423. <dt id="mark_clearOnEnter"><code><strong>clearOnEnter</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1424. <dd>When enabled, will cause the mark to clear itself whenever
  1425. the cursor enters its range. This is mostly useful for
  1426. text-replacement widgets that need to 'snap open' when the
  1427. user tries to edit them. The
  1428. <a href="#event_clear"><code>"clear"</code></a> event
  1429. fired on the range handle can be used to be notified when this
  1430. happens.</dd>
  1431. <dt id="mark_clearWhenEmpty"><code><strong>clearWhenEmpty</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1432. <dd>Determines whether the mark is automatically cleared when
  1433. it becomes empty. Default is true.</dd>
  1434. <dt id="mark_replacedWith"><code><strong>replacedWith</strong>: Element</code></dt>
  1435. <dd>Use a given node to display this range. Implies both
  1436. collapsed and atomic. The given DOM node <em>must</em> be an
  1437. inline element (as opposed to a block element).</dd>
  1438. <dt><code><strong>handleMouseEvents</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1439. <dd>When <code>replacedWith</code> is given, this determines
  1440. whether the editor will capture mouse and drag events
  1441. occurring in this widget. Default is false—the events will be
  1442. left alone for the default browser handler, or specific
  1443. handlers on the widget, to capture.</dd>
  1444. <dt id="mark_readOnly"><code><strong>readOnly</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1445. <dd>A read-only span can, as long as it is not cleared, not be
  1446. modified except by
  1447. calling <a href="#setValue"><code>setValue</code></a> to reset
  1448. the whole document. <em>Note:</em> adding a read-only span
  1449. currently clears the undo history of the editor, because
  1450. existing undo events being partially nullified by read-only
  1451. spans would corrupt the history (in the current
  1452. implementation).</dd>
  1453. <dt id="mark_addToHistory"><code><strong>addToHistory</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1454. <dd>When set to true (default is false), adding this marker
  1455. will create an event in the undo history that can be
  1456. individually undone (clearing the marker).</dd>
  1457. <dt id="mark_startStyle"><code><strong>startStyle</strong>: string</code></dt><dd>Can be used to specify
  1458. an extra CSS class to be applied to the leftmost span that
  1459. is part of the marker.</dd>
  1460. <dt id="mark_endStyle"><code><strong>endStyle</strong>: string</code></dt><dd>Equivalent
  1461. to <code>startStyle</code>, but for the rightmost span.</dd>
  1462. <dt id="mark_css"><code><strong>css</strong>: string</code></dt>
  1463. <dd>A string of CSS to be applied to the covered text. For example <code>"color: #fe3"</code>.</dd>
  1464. <dt id="mark_title"><code><strong>title</strong>:
  1465. string</code></dt><dd>When given, will give the nodes created
  1466. for this span a HTML <code>title</code> attribute with the
  1467. given value.</dd>
  1468. <dt id="mark_shared"><code><strong>shared</strong>: boolean</code></dt><dd>When the
  1469. target document is <a href="#linkedDoc">linked</a> to other
  1470. documents, you can set <code>shared</code> to true to make the
  1471. marker appear in all documents. By default, a marker appears
  1472. only in its target document.</dd>
  1473. </dl>
  1474. The method will return an object that represents the marker
  1475. (with constructor <code>CodeMirror.TextMarker</code>), which
  1476. exposes three methods:
  1477. <code><strong>clear</strong>()</code>, to remove the mark,
  1478. <code><strong>find</strong>()</code>, which returns
  1479. a <code>{from, to}</code> object (both holding document
  1480. positions), indicating the current position of the marked range,
  1481. or <code>undefined</code> if the marker is no longer in the
  1482. document, and finally <code><strong>changed</strong>()</code>,
  1483. which you can call if you've done something that might change
  1484. the size of the marker (for example changing the content of
  1485. a <a href="#mark_replacedWith"><code>replacedWith</code></a>
  1486. node), and want to cheaply update the display.</dd>
  1487. <dt id="setBookmark"><code><strong>doc.setBookmark</strong>(pos: {line, ch}, ?options: object) → TextMarker</code></dt>
  1488. <dd>Inserts a bookmark, a handle that follows the text around it
  1489. as it is being edited, at the given position. A bookmark has two
  1490. methods <code>find()</code> and <code>clear()</code>. The first
  1491. returns the current position of the bookmark, if it is still in
  1492. the document, and the second explicitly removes the bookmark.
  1493. The options argument is optional. If given, the following
  1494. properties are recognized:
  1495. <dl>
  1496. <dt><code><strong>widget</strong>: Element</code></dt><dd>Can be used to display a DOM
  1497. node at the current location of the bookmark (analogous to
  1498. the <a href="#mark_replacedWith"><code>replacedWith</code></a>
  1499. option to <a href="#markText"><code>markText</code></a>).</dd>
  1500. <dt><code><strong>insertLeft</strong>: boolean</code></dt><dd>By default, text typed
  1501. when the cursor is on top of the bookmark will end up to the
  1502. right of the bookmark. Set this option to true to make it go
  1503. to the left instead.</dd>
  1504. <dt><code><strong>shared</strong>: boolean</code></dt><dd>See
  1505. the corresponding <a href="#mark_shared">option</a>
  1506. to <code>markText</code>.</dd>
  1507. <dt><code><strong>handleMouseEvents</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1508. <dd>As with <a href="#markText"><code>markText</code></a>,
  1509. this determines whether mouse events on the widget inserted
  1510. for this bookmark are handled by CodeMirror. The default is
  1511. false.</dd>
  1512. </dl></dd>
  1513. <dt id="findMarks"><code><strong>doc.findMarks</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}) → array&lt;TextMarker&gt;</code></dt>
  1514. <dd>Returns an array of all the bookmarks and marked ranges
  1515. found between the given positions (non-inclusive).</dd>
  1516. <dt id="findMarksAt"><code><strong>doc.findMarksAt</strong>(pos: {line, ch}) → array&lt;TextMarker&gt;</code></dt>
  1517. <dd>Returns an array of all the bookmarks and marked ranges
  1518. present at the given position.</dd>
  1519. <dt id="getAllMarks"><code><strong>doc.getAllMarks</strong>() → array&lt;TextMarker&gt;</code></dt>
  1520. <dd>Returns an array containing all marked ranges in the document.</dd>
  1521. </dl>
  1522. <h3 id="api_decoration">Widget, gutter, and decoration methods</h3>
  1523. <dl>
  1524. <dt id="setGutterMarker"><code><strong>doc.setGutterMarker</strong>(line: integer|LineHandle, gutterID: string, value: Element) → LineHandle</code></dt>
  1525. <dd>Sets the gutter marker for the given gutter (identified by
  1526. its CSS class, see
  1527. the <a href="#option_gutters"><code>gutters</code></a> option)
  1528. to the given value. Value can be either <code>null</code>, to
  1529. clear the marker, or a DOM element, to set it. The DOM element
  1530. will be shown in the specified gutter next to the specified
  1531. line.</dd>
  1532. <dt id="clearGutter"><code><strong>doc.clearGutter</strong>(gutterID: string)</code></dt>
  1533. <dd>Remove all gutter markers in
  1534. the <a href="#option_gutters">gutter</a> with the given ID.</dd>
  1535. <dt id="addLineClass"><code><strong>doc.addLineClass</strong>(line: integer|LineHandle, where: string, class: string) → LineHandle</code></dt>
  1536. <dd>Set a CSS class name for the given line. <code>line</code>
  1537. can be a number or a line handle. <code>where</code> determines
  1538. to which element this class should be applied, can can be one
  1539. of <code>"text"</code> (the text element, which lies in front of
  1540. the selection), <code>"background"</code> (a background element
  1541. that will be behind the selection), <code>"gutter"</code> (the
  1542. line's gutter space), or <code>"wrap"</code> (the wrapper node
  1543. that wraps all of the line's elements, including gutter
  1544. elements). <code>class</code> should be the name of the class to
  1545. apply.</dd>
  1546. <dt id="removeLineClass"><code><strong>doc.removeLineClass</strong>(line: integer|LineHandle, where: string, class: string) → LineHandle</code></dt>
  1547. <dd>Remove a CSS class from a line. <code>line</code> can be a
  1548. line handle or number. <code>where</code> should be one
  1549. of <code>"text"</code>, <code>"background"</code>,
  1550. or <code>"wrap"</code>
  1551. (see <a href="#addLineClass"><code>addLineClass</code></a>). <code>class</code>
  1552. can be left off to remove all classes for the specified node, or
  1553. be a string to remove only a specific class.</dd>
  1554. <dt id="lineInfo"><code><strong>doc.lineInfo</strong>(line: integer|LineHandle) → object</code></dt>
  1555. <dd>Returns the line number, text content, and marker status of
  1556. the given line, which can be either a number or a line handle.
  1557. The returned object has the structure <code>{line, handle, text,
  1558. gutterMarkers, textClass, bgClass, wrapClass, widgets}</code>,
  1559. where <code>gutterMarkers</code> is an object mapping gutter IDs
  1560. to marker elements, and <code>widgets</code> is an array
  1561. of <a href="#addLineWidget">line widgets</a> attached to this
  1562. line, and the various class properties refer to classes added
  1563. with <a href="#addLineClass"><code>addLineClass</code></a>.</dd>
  1564. <dt id="addWidget"><code><strong>cm.addWidget</strong>(pos: {line, ch}, node: Element, scrollIntoView: boolean)</code></dt>
  1565. <dd>Puts <code>node</code>, which should be an absolutely
  1566. positioned DOM node, into the editor, positioned right below the
  1567. given <code>{line, ch}</code> position.
  1568. When <code>scrollIntoView</code> is true, the editor will ensure
  1569. that the entire node is visible (if possible). To remove the
  1570. widget again, simply use DOM methods (move it somewhere else, or
  1571. call <code>removeChild</code> on its parent).</dd>
  1572. <dt id="addLineWidget"><code><strong>doc.addLineWidget</strong>(line: integer|LineHandle, node: Element, ?options: object) → LineWidget</code></dt>
  1573. <dd>Adds a line widget, an element shown below a line, spanning
  1574. the whole of the editor's width, and moving the lines below it
  1575. downwards. <code>line</code> should be either an integer or a
  1576. line handle, and <code>node</code> should be a DOM node, which
  1577. will be displayed below the given line. <code>options</code>,
  1578. when given, should be an object that configures the behavior of
  1579. the widget. The following options are supported (all default to
  1580. false):
  1581. <dl>
  1582. <dt><code><strong>coverGutter</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1583. <dd>Whether the widget should cover the gutter.</dd>
  1584. <dt><code><strong>noHScroll</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1585. <dd>Whether the widget should stay fixed in the face of
  1586. horizontal scrolling.</dd>
  1587. <dt><code><strong>above</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1588. <dd>Causes the widget to be placed above instead of below
  1589. the text of the line.</dd>
  1590. <dt><code><strong>handleMouseEvents</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  1591. <dd>Determines whether the editor will capture mouse and
  1592. drag events occurring in this widget. Default is false—the
  1593. events will be left alone for the default browser handler,
  1594. or specific handlers on the widget, to capture.</dd>
  1595. <dt><code><strong>insertAt</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  1596. <dd>By default, the widget is added below other widgets for
  1597. the line. This option can be used to place it at a different
  1598. position (zero for the top, N to put it after the Nth other
  1599. widget). Note that this only has effect once, when the
  1600. widget is created.
  1601. </dl>
  1602. Note that the widget node will become a descendant of nodes with
  1603. CodeMirror-specific CSS classes, and those classes might in some
  1604. cases affect it. This method returns an object that represents
  1605. the widget placement. It'll have a <code>line</code> property
  1606. pointing at the line handle that it is associated with, and the following methods:
  1607. <dl>
  1608. <dt id="widget_clear"><code><strong>clear</strong>()</code></dt><dd>Removes the widget.</dd>
  1609. <dt id="widget_changed"><code><strong>changed</strong>()</code></dt><dd>Call
  1610. this if you made some change to the widget's DOM node that
  1611. might affect its height. It'll force CodeMirror to update
  1612. the height of the line that contains the widget.</dd>
  1613. </dl>
  1614. </dd>
  1615. </dl>
  1616. <h3 id="api_sizing">Sizing, scrolling and positioning methods</h3>
  1617. <dl>
  1618. <dt id="setSize"><code><strong>cm.setSize</strong>(width: number|string, height: number|string)</code></dt>
  1619. <dd>Programmatically set the size of the editor (overriding the
  1620. applicable <a href="#css-resize">CSS
  1621. rules</a>). <code>width</code> and <code>height</code>
  1622. can be either numbers (interpreted as pixels) or CSS units
  1623. (<code>"100%"</code>, for example). You can
  1624. pass <code>null</code> for either of them to indicate that that
  1625. dimension should not be changed.</dd>
  1626. <dt id="scrollTo"><code><strong>cm.scrollTo</strong>(x: number, y: number)</code></dt>
  1627. <dd>Scroll the editor to a given (pixel) position. Both
  1628. arguments may be left as <code>null</code>
  1629. or <code>undefined</code> to have no effect.</dd>
  1630. <dt id="getScrollInfo"><code><strong>cm.getScrollInfo</strong>() → {left, top, width, height, clientWidth, clientHeight}</code></dt>
  1631. <dd>Get an <code>{left, top, width, height, clientWidth,
  1632. clientHeight}</code> object that represents the current scroll
  1633. position, the size of the scrollable area, and the size of the
  1634. visible area (minus scrollbars).</dd>
  1635. <dt id="scrollIntoView"><code><strong>cm.scrollIntoView</strong>(what: {line, ch}|{left, top, right, bottom}|{from, to}|null, ?margin: number)</code></dt>
  1636. <dd>Scrolls the given position into view. <code>what</code> may
  1637. be <code>null</code> to scroll the cursor into view,
  1638. a <code>{line, ch}</code> position to scroll a character into
  1639. view, a <code>{left, top, right, bottom}</code> pixel range (in
  1640. editor-local coordinates), or a range <code>{from, to}</code>
  1641. containing either two character positions or two pixel squares.
  1642. The <code>margin</code> parameter is optional. When given, it
  1643. indicates the amount of vertical pixels around the given area
  1644. that should be made visible as well.</dd>
  1645. <dt id="cursorCoords"><code><strong>cm.cursorCoords</strong>(where: boolean|{line, ch}, mode: string) → {left, top, bottom}</code></dt>
  1646. <dd>Returns an <code>{left, top, bottom}</code> object
  1647. containing the coordinates of the cursor position.
  1648. If <code>mode</code> is <code>"local"</code>, they will be
  1649. relative to the top-left corner of the editable document. If it
  1650. is <code>"page"</code> or not given, they are relative to the
  1651. top-left corner of the page. If <code>mode</code>
  1652. is <code>"window"</code>, the coordinates are relative to the
  1653. top-left corner of the currently visible (scrolled)
  1654. window. <code>where</code> can be a boolean indicating whether
  1655. you want the start (<code>true</code>) or the end
  1656. (<code>false</code>) of the selection, or, if a <code>{line,
  1657. ch}</code> object is given, it specifies the precise position at
  1658. which you want to measure.</dd>
  1659. <dt id="charCoords"><code><strong>cm.charCoords</strong>(pos: {line, ch}, ?mode: string) → {left, right, top, bottom}</code></dt>
  1660. <dd>Returns the position and dimensions of an arbitrary
  1661. character. <code>pos</code> should be a <code>{line, ch}</code>
  1662. object. This differs from <code>cursorCoords</code> in that
  1663. it'll give the size of the whole character, rather than just the
  1664. position that the cursor would have when it would sit at that
  1665. position.</dd>
  1666. <dt id="coordsChar"><code><strong>cm.coordsChar</strong>(object: {left, top}, ?mode: string) → {line, ch}</code></dt>
  1667. <dd>Given an <code>{left, top}</code> object (e.g. coordinates of a mouse event) returns
  1668. the <code>{line, ch}</code> position that corresponds to it. The
  1669. optional <code>mode</code> parameter determines relative to what
  1670. the coordinates are interpreted. It may
  1671. be <code>"window"</code>, <code>"page"</code> (the default),
  1672. or <code>"local"</code>.</dd>
  1673. <dt id="lineAtHeight"><code><strong>cm.lineAtHeight</strong>(height: number, ?mode: string) → number</code></dt>
  1674. <dd>Computes the line at the given pixel
  1675. height. <code>mode</code> can be one of the same strings
  1676. that <a href="#coordsChar"><code>coordsChar</code></a>
  1677. accepts.</dd>
  1678. <dt id="heightAtLine"><code><strong>cm.heightAtLine</strong>(line: integer|LineHandle, ?mode: string, ?includeWidgets: bool) → number</code></dt>
  1679. <dd>Computes the height of the top of a line, in the coordinate
  1680. system specified by <code>mode</code>
  1681. (see <a href="#coordsChar"><code>coordsChar</code></a>), which
  1682. defaults to <code>"page"</code>. When a line below the bottom of
  1683. the document is specified, the returned value is the bottom of
  1684. the last line in the document. By default, the position of the
  1685. actual text is returned. If `includeWidgets` is true and the
  1686. line has line widgets, the position above the first line widget
  1687. is returned.</dd>
  1688. <dt id="defaultTextHeight"><code><strong>cm.defaultTextHeight</strong>() → number</code></dt>
  1689. <dd>Returns the line height of the default font for the editor.</dd>
  1690. <dt id="defaultCharWidth"><code><strong>cm.defaultCharWidth</strong>() → number</code></dt>
  1691. <dd>Returns the pixel width of an 'x' in the default font for
  1692. the editor. (Note that for non-monospace fonts, this is mostly
  1693. useless, and even for monospace fonts, non-ascii characters
  1694. might have a different width).</dd>
  1695. <dt id="getViewport"><code><strong>cm.getViewport</strong>() → {from: number, to: number}</code></dt>
  1696. <dd>Returns a <code>{from, to}</code> object indicating the
  1697. start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of the currently rendered
  1698. part of the document. In big documents, when most content is
  1699. scrolled out of view, CodeMirror will only render the visible
  1700. part, and a margin around it. See also
  1701. the <a href="#event_viewportChange"><code>viewportChange</code></a>
  1702. event.</dd>
  1703. <dt id="refresh"><code><strong>cm.refresh</strong>()</code></dt>
  1704. <dd>If your code does something to change the size of the editor
  1705. element (window resizes are already listened for), or unhides
  1706. it, you should probably follow up by calling this method to
  1707. ensure CodeMirror is still looking as intended. See also
  1708. the <a href="#addon_autorefresh">autorefresh addon</a>.</dd>
  1709. </dl>
  1710. <h3 id="api_mode">Mode, state, and token-related methods</h3>
  1711. <p>When writing language-aware functionality, it can often be
  1712. useful to hook into the knowledge that the CodeMirror language
  1713. mode has. See <a href="#modeapi">the section on modes</a> for a
  1714. more detailed description of how these work.</p>
  1715. <dl>
  1716. <dt id="getMode"><code><strong>doc.getMode</strong>() → object</code></dt>
  1717. <dd>Gets the (outer) mode object for the editor. Note that this
  1718. is distinct from <code>getOption("mode")</code>, which gives you
  1719. the mode specification, rather than the resolved, instantiated
  1720. <a href="#defineMode">mode object</a>.</dd>
  1721. <dt id="getModeAt"><code><strong>cm.getModeAt</strong>(pos: {line, ch}) → object</code></dt>
  1722. <dd>Gets the inner mode at a given position. This will return
  1723. the same as <a href="#getMode"><code>getMode</code></a> for
  1724. simple modes, but will return an inner mode for nesting modes
  1725. (such as <code>htmlmixed</code>).</dd>
  1726. <dt id="getTokenAt"><code><strong>cm.getTokenAt</strong>(pos: {line, ch}, ?precise: boolean) → object</code></dt>
  1727. <dd>Retrieves information about the token the current mode found
  1728. before the given position (a <code>{line, ch}</code> object). The
  1729. returned object has the following properties:
  1730. <dl>
  1731. <dt><code><strong>start</strong></code></dt><dd>The character (on the given line) at which the token starts.</dd>
  1732. <dt><code><strong>end</strong></code></dt><dd>The character at which the token ends.</dd>
  1733. <dt><code><strong>string</strong></code></dt><dd>The token's string.</dd>
  1734. <dt><code><strong>type</strong></code></dt><dd>The token type the mode assigned
  1735. to the token, such as <code>"keyword"</code>
  1736. or <code>"comment"</code> (may also be null).</dd>
  1737. <dt><code><strong>state</strong></code></dt><dd>The mode's state at the end of this token.</dd>
  1738. </dl>
  1739. If <code>precise</code> is true, the token will be guaranteed to be accurate based on recent edits. If false or
  1740. not specified, the token will use cached state information, which will be faster but might not be accurate if
  1741. edits were recently made and highlighting has not yet completed.
  1742. </dd>
  1743. <dt id="getLineTokens"><code><strong>cm.getLineTokens</strong>(line: integer, ?precise: boolean) → array&lt;{start, end, string, type, state}&gt;</code></dt>
  1744. <dd>This is similar
  1745. to <a href="#getTokenAt"><code>getTokenAt</code></a>, but
  1746. collects all tokens for a given line into an array. It is much
  1747. cheaper than repeatedly calling <code>getTokenAt</code>, which
  1748. re-parses the part of the line before the token for every call.</dd>
  1749. <dt id="getTokenTypeAt"><code><strong>cm.getTokenTypeAt</strong>(pos: {line, ch}) → string</code></dt>
  1750. <dd>This is a (much) cheaper version
  1751. of <a href="#getTokenAt"><code>getTokenAt</code></a> useful for
  1752. when you just need the type of the token at a given position,
  1753. and no other information. Will return <code>null</code> for
  1754. unstyled tokens, and a string, potentially containing multiple
  1755. space-separated style names, otherwise.</dd>
  1756. <dt id="getHelpers"><code><strong>cm.getHelpers</strong>(pos: {line, ch}, type: string) → array&lt;helper&gt;</code></dt>
  1757. <dd>Fetch the set of applicable helper values for the given
  1758. position. Helpers provide a way to look up functionality
  1759. appropriate for a mode. The <code>type</code> argument provides
  1760. the helper namespace (see
  1761. <a href="#registerHelper"><code>registerHelper</code></a>), in
  1762. which the values will be looked up. When the mode itself has a
  1763. property that corresponds to the <code>type</code>, that
  1764. directly determines the keys that are used to look up the helper
  1765. values (it may be either a single string, or an array of
  1766. strings). Failing that, the mode's <code>helperType</code>
  1767. property and finally the mode's name are used.</dd>
  1768. <dd>For example, the JavaScript mode has a
  1769. property <code>fold</code> containing <code>"brace"</code>. When
  1770. the <code>brace-fold</code> addon is loaded, that defines a
  1771. helper named <code>brace</code> in the <code>fold</code>
  1772. namespace. This is then used by
  1773. the <a href="#addon_foldcode"><code>foldcode</code></a> addon to
  1774. figure out that it can use that folding function to fold
  1775. JavaScript code.</dd>
  1776. <dd>When any <a href="#registerGlobalHelper">'global'</a>
  1777. helpers are defined for the given namespace, their predicates
  1778. are called on the current mode and editor, and all those that
  1779. declare they are applicable will also be added to the array that
  1780. is returned.</dd>
  1781. <dt id="getHelper"><code><strong>cm.getHelper</strong>(pos: {line, ch}, type: string) → helper</code></dt>
  1782. <dd>Returns the first applicable helper value.
  1783. See <a href="#getHelpers"><code>getHelpers</code></a>.</dd>
  1784. <dt id="getStateAfter"><code><strong>cm.getStateAfter</strong>(?line: integer, ?precise: boolean) → object</code></dt>
  1785. <dd>Returns the mode's parser state, if any, at the end of the
  1786. given line number. If no line number is given, the state at the
  1787. end of the document is returned. This can be useful for storing
  1788. parsing errors in the state, or getting other kinds of
  1789. contextual information for a line. <code>precise</code> is defined
  1790. as in <code>getTokenAt()</code>.</dd>
  1791. </dl>
  1792. <h3 id="api_misc">Miscellaneous methods</h3>
  1793. <dl>
  1794. <dt id="operation"><code><strong>cm.operation</strong>(func: () → any) → any</code></dt>
  1795. <dd>CodeMirror internally buffers changes and only updates its
  1796. DOM structure after it has finished performing some operation.
  1797. If you need to perform a lot of operations on a CodeMirror
  1798. instance, you can call this method with a function argument. It
  1799. will call the function, buffering up all changes, and only doing
  1800. the expensive update after the function returns. This can be a
  1801. lot faster. The return value from this method will be the return
  1802. value of your function.</dd>
  1803. <dt id="startOperation"><code><strong>cm.startOperation</strong>()</code></dt>
  1804. <dt id="endOperation"><code><strong>cm.endOperation</strong>()</code></dt>
  1805. <dd>In normal circumstances, use the above <code>operation</code>
  1806. method. But if you want to buffer operations happening asynchronously,
  1807. or that can't all be wrapped in a callback function, you can
  1808. call <code>startOperation</code> to tell CodeMirror to start
  1809. buffering changes, and <code>endOperation</code> to actually
  1810. render all the updates. <em>Be careful:</em> if you use this
  1811. API and forget to call <code>endOperation</code>, the editor will
  1812. just never update.</dd>
  1813. <dt id="indentLine"><code><strong>cm.indentLine</strong>(line: integer, ?dir: string|integer)</code></dt>
  1814. <dd>Adjust the indentation of the given line. The second
  1815. argument (which defaults to <code>"smart"</code>) may be one of:
  1816. <dl>
  1817. <dt><code><strong>"prev"</strong></code></dt>
  1818. <dd>Base indentation on the indentation of the previous line.</dd>
  1819. <dt><code><strong>"smart"</strong></code></dt>
  1820. <dd>Use the mode's smart indentation if available, behave
  1821. like <code>"prev"</code> otherwise.</dd>
  1822. <dt><code><strong>"add"</strong></code></dt>
  1823. <dd>Increase the indentation of the line by
  1824. one <a href="#option_indentUnit">indent unit</a>.</dd>
  1825. <dt><code><strong>"subtract"</strong></code></dt>
  1826. <dd>Reduce the indentation of the line.</dd>
  1827. <dt><code><strong>&lt;integer></strong></code></dt>
  1828. <dd>Add (positive number) or reduce (negative number) the
  1829. indentation by the given amount of spaces.</dd>
  1830. </dl></dd>
  1831. <dt id="toggleOverwrite"><code><strong>cm.toggleOverwrite</strong>(?value: boolean)</code></dt>
  1832. <dd>Switches between overwrite and normal insert mode (when not
  1833. given an argument), or sets the overwrite mode to a specific
  1834. state (when given an argument).</dd>
  1835. <dt id="isReadOnly"><code><strong>cm.isReadOnly</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  1836. <dd>Tells you whether the editor's content can be edited by the
  1837. user.</dd>
  1838. <dt id="lineSeparator"><code><strong>doc.lineSeparator</strong>()</code></dt>
  1839. <dd>Returns the preferred line separator string for this
  1840. document, as per the <a href="#option_lineSeparator">option</a>
  1841. by the same name. When that option is <code>null</code>, the
  1842. string <code>"\n"</code> is returned.</dd>
  1843. <dt id="execCommand"><code><strong>cm.execCommand</strong>(name: string)</code></dt>
  1844. <dd>Runs the <a href="#commands">command</a> with the given name on the editor.</dd>
  1845. <dt id="posFromIndex"><code><strong>doc.posFromIndex</strong>(index: integer) → {line, ch}</code></dt>
  1846. <dd>Calculates and returns a <code>{line, ch}</code> object for a
  1847. zero-based <code>index</code> who's value is relative to the start of the
  1848. editor's text. If the <code>index</code> is out of range of the text then
  1849. the returned object is clipped to start or end of the text
  1850. respectively.</dd>
  1851. <dt id="indexFromPos"><code><strong>doc.indexFromPos</strong>(object: {line, ch}) → integer</code></dt>
  1852. <dd>The reverse of <a href="#posFromIndex"><code>posFromIndex</code></a>.</dd>
  1853. <dt id="focus"><code><strong>cm.focus</strong>()</code></dt>
  1854. <dd>Give the editor focus.</dd>
  1855. <dt id="phrase"><code><strong>cm.phrase</strong>(text: string) → string</code></dt>
  1856. <dd>Allow the given string to be translated with
  1857. the <a href="#option_phrases"><code>phrases</code>
  1858. option</a>.</dd>
  1859. <dt id="getInputField"><code><strong>cm.getInputField</strong>() → Element</code></dt>
  1860. <dd>Returns the input field for the editor. Will be a textarea
  1861. or an editable div, depending on the value of
  1862. the <a href="#option_inputStyle"><code>inputStyle</code></a>
  1863. option.</dd>
  1864. <dt id="getWrapperElement"><code><strong>cm.getWrapperElement</strong>() → Element</code></dt>
  1865. <dd>Returns the DOM node that represents the editor, and
  1866. controls its size. Remove this from your tree to delete an
  1867. editor instance.</dd>
  1868. <dt id="getScrollerElement"><code><strong>cm.getScrollerElement</strong>() → Element</code></dt>
  1869. <dd>Returns the DOM node that is responsible for the scrolling
  1870. of the editor.</dd>
  1871. <dt id="getGutterElement"><code><strong>cm.getGutterElement</strong>() → Element</code></dt>
  1872. <dd>Fetches the DOM node that contains the editor gutters.</dd>
  1873. </dl>
  1874. <h3 id="api_static">Static properties</h3>
  1875. <p>The <code>CodeMirror</code> object itself provides
  1876. several useful properties.</p>
  1877. <dl>
  1878. <dt id="version"><code><strong>CodeMirror.version</strong>: string</code></dt>
  1879. <dd>It contains a string that indicates the version of the
  1880. library. This is a triple of
  1881. integers <code>"major.minor.patch"</code>,
  1882. where <code>patch</code> is zero for releases, and something
  1883. else (usually one) for dev snapshots.</dd>
  1884. <dt id="fromTextArea"><code><strong>CodeMirror.fromTextArea</strong>(textArea: TextAreaElement, ?config: object)</code></dt>
  1885. <dd>This method provides another way to initialize an editor. It
  1886. takes a textarea DOM node as first argument and an optional
  1887. configuration object as second. It will replace the textarea
  1888. with a CodeMirror instance, and wire up the form of that
  1889. textarea (if any) to make sure the editor contents are put into
  1890. the textarea when the form is submitted. The text in the
  1891. textarea will provide the content for the editor. A CodeMirror
  1892. instance created this way has three additional methods:
  1893. <dl>
  1894. <dt id="save"><code><strong>cm.save</strong>()</code></dt>
  1895. <dd>Copy the content of the editor into the textarea.</dd>
  1896. <dt id="toTextArea"><code><strong>cm.toTextArea</strong>()</code></dt>
  1897. <dd>Remove the editor, and restore the original textarea (with
  1898. the editor's current content). If you dynamically create and
  1899. destroy editors made with `fromTextArea`, without destroying
  1900. the form they are part of, you should make sure to call
  1901. `toTextArea` to remove the editor, or its `"submit"` handler
  1902. on the form will cause a memory leak.</dd>
  1903. <dt id="getTextArea"><code><strong>cm.getTextArea</strong>() → TextAreaElement</code></dt>
  1904. <dd>Returns the textarea that the instance was based on.</dd>
  1905. </dl>
  1906. </dd>
  1907. <dt id="defaults"><code><strong>CodeMirror.defaults</strong>: object</code></dt>
  1908. <dd>An object containing default values for
  1909. all <a href="#config">options</a>. You can assign to its
  1910. properties to modify defaults (though this won't affect editors
  1911. that have already been created).</dd>
  1912. <dt id="defineExtension"><code><strong>CodeMirror.defineExtension</strong>(name: string, value: any)</code></dt>
  1913. <dd>If you want to define extra methods in terms of the
  1914. CodeMirror API, it is possible to
  1915. use <code>defineExtension</code>. This will cause the given
  1916. value (usually a method) to be added to all CodeMirror instances
  1917. created from then on.</dd>
  1918. <dt id="defineDocExtension"><code><strong>CodeMirror.defineDocExtension</strong>(name: string, value: any)</code></dt>
  1919. <dd>Like <a href="#defineExtension"><code>defineExtension</code></a>,
  1920. but the method will be added to the interface
  1921. for <a href="#Doc"><code>Doc</code></a> objects instead.</dd>
  1922. <dt id="defineOption"><code><strong>CodeMirror.defineOption</strong>(name: string,
  1923. default: any, updateFunc: function)</code></dt>
  1924. <dd>Similarly, <code>defineOption</code> can be used to define new options for
  1925. CodeMirror. The <code>updateFunc</code> will be called with the
  1926. editor instance and the new value when an editor is initialized,
  1927. and whenever the option is modified
  1928. through <a href="#setOption"><code>setOption</code></a>.</dd>
  1929. <dt id="defineInitHook"><code><strong>CodeMirror.defineInitHook</strong>(func: function)</code></dt>
  1930. <dd>If your extension just needs to run some
  1931. code whenever a CodeMirror instance is initialized,
  1932. use <code>CodeMirror.defineInitHook</code>. Give it a function as
  1933. its only argument, and from then on, that function will be called
  1934. (with the instance as argument) whenever a new CodeMirror instance
  1935. is initialized.</dd>
  1936. <dt id="registerHelper"><code><strong>CodeMirror.registerHelper</strong>(type: string, name: string, value: helper)</code></dt>
  1937. <dd>Registers a helper value with the given <code>name</code> in
  1938. the given namespace (<code>type</code>). This is used to define
  1939. functionality that may be looked up by mode. Will create (if it
  1940. doesn't already exist) a property on the <code>CodeMirror</code>
  1941. object for the given <code>type</code>, pointing to an object
  1942. that maps names to values. I.e. after
  1943. doing <code>CodeMirror.registerHelper("hint", "foo",
  1944. myFoo)</code>, the value <code>CodeMirror.hint.foo</code> will
  1945. point to <code>myFoo</code>.</dd>
  1946. <dt id="registerGlobalHelper"><code><strong>CodeMirror.registerGlobalHelper</strong>(type: string, name: string, predicate: fn(mode, CodeMirror), value: helper)</code></dt>
  1947. <dd>Acts
  1948. like <a href="#registerHelper"><code>registerHelper</code></a>,
  1949. but also registers this helper as 'global', meaning that it will
  1950. be included by <a href="#getHelpers"><code>getHelpers</code></a>
  1951. whenever the given <code>predicate</code> returns true when
  1952. called with the local mode and editor.</dd>
  1953. <dt id="Pos"><code><strong>CodeMirror.Pos</strong>(line: integer, ?ch: integer, ?sticky: string)</code></dt>
  1954. <dd>A constructor for the objects that are used to represent
  1955. positions in editor documents. <code>sticky</code> defaults to
  1956. null, but can be set to <code>"before"</code>
  1957. or <code>"after"</code> to make the position explicitly
  1958. associate with the character before or after it.</dd>
  1959. <dt id="changeEnd"><code><strong>CodeMirror.changeEnd</strong>(change: object) → {line, ch}</code></dt>
  1960. <dd>Utility function that computes an end position from a change
  1961. (an object with <code>from</code>, <code>to</code>,
  1962. and <code>text</code> properties, as passed to
  1963. various <a href="#event_change">event handlers</a>). The
  1964. returned position will be the end of the changed
  1965. range, <em>after</em> the change is applied.</dd>
  1966. <dt id="countColumn"><code><strong>CodeMirror.countColumn</strong>(line: string, index: number, tabSize: number) → number</code></dt>
  1967. <dd>Find the column position at a given string index using a given tabsize.</dd>
  1968. </dl>
  1969. </section>
  1970. <section id=addons>
  1971. <h2 id="addons">Addons</h2>
  1972. <p>The <code>addon</code> directory in the distribution contains a
  1973. number of reusable components that implement extra editor
  1974. functionality (on top of extension functions
  1975. like <a href="#defineOption"><code>defineOption</code></a>, <a href="#defineExtension"><code>defineExtension</code></a>,
  1976. and <a href="#registerHelper"><code>registerHelper</code></a>). In
  1977. brief, they are:</p>
  1978. <dl>
  1979. <dt id="addon_dialog"><a href="../addon/dialog/dialog.js"><code>dialog/dialog.js</code></a></dt>
  1980. <dd>Provides a very simple way to query users for text input.
  1981. Adds the <strong><code>openDialog(template, callback, options) →
  1982. closeFunction</code></strong> method to CodeMirror instances,
  1983. which can be called with an HTML fragment or a detached DOM
  1984. node that provides the prompt (should include an <code>input</code>
  1985. or <code>button</code> tag), and a callback function that is called
  1986. when the user presses enter. It returns a function <code>closeFunction</code>
  1987. which, if called, will close the dialog immediately.
  1988. <strong><code>openDialog</code></strong> takes the following options:
  1989. <dl>
  1990. <dt><code><strong>closeOnEnter</strong>: bool</code></dt>
  1991. <dd>If true, the dialog will be closed when the user presses
  1992. enter in the input. Defaults to <code>true</code>.</dd>
  1993. <dt><code><strong>closeOnBlur</strong>: bool</code></dt>
  1994. <dd>Determines whether the dialog is closed when it loses focus. Defaults to <code>true</code>.</dd>
  1995. <dt><code><strong>onKeyDown</strong>: fn(event: KeyboardEvent, value: string, close: fn()) → bool</code></dt>
  1996. <dd>An event handler that will be called whenever <code>keydown</code> fires in the
  1997. dialog's input. If your callback returns <code>true</code>,
  1998. the dialog will not do any further processing of the event.</dd>
  1999. <dt><code><strong>onKeyUp</strong>: fn(event: KeyboardEvent, value: string, close: fn()) → bool</code></dt>
  2000. <dd>Same as <code>onKeyDown</code> but for the
  2001. <code>keyup</code> event.</dd>
  2002. <dt><code><strong>onInput</strong>: fn(event: InputEvent, value: string, close: fn()) → bool</code></dt>
  2003. <dd>Same as <code>onKeyDown</code> but for the
  2004. <code>input</code> event.</dd>
  2005. <dt><code><strong>onClose</strong>: fn(instance)</code>:</dt>
  2006. <dd>A callback that will be called after the dialog has been closed and
  2007. removed from the DOM. No return value.</dd>
  2008. </dl>
  2009. <p>Also adds an <strong><code>openNotification(template, options) →
  2010. closeFunction</code></strong> function that simply shows an HTML
  2011. fragment as a notification at the top of the editor. It takes a
  2012. single option: <code>duration</code>, the amount of time after
  2013. which the notification will be automatically closed. If <code>
  2014. duration</code> is zero, the dialog will not be closed automatically.</p>
  2015. <p>Depends on <code>addon/dialog/dialog.css</code>.</p></dd>
  2016. <dt id="addon_searchcursor"><a href="../addon/search/searchcursor.js"><code>search/searchcursor.js</code></a></dt>
  2017. <dd>Adds the <code>getSearchCursor(query, start, options) →
  2018. cursor</code> method to CodeMirror instances, which can be used
  2019. to implement search/replace functionality. <code>query</code>
  2020. can be a regular expression or a string. <code>start</code>
  2021. provides the starting position of the search. It can be
  2022. a <code>{line, ch}</code> object, or can be left off to default
  2023. to the start of the document. <code>options</code> is an
  2024. optional object, which can contain the property `caseFold:
  2025. false` to disable case folding when matching a string, or the
  2026. property `multiline: disable` to disable multi-line matching for
  2027. regular expressions (which may help performance). A search
  2028. cursor has the following methods:
  2029. <dl>
  2030. <dt><code><strong>findNext</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  2031. <dt><code><strong>findPrevious</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  2032. <dd>Search forward or backward from the current position.
  2033. The return value indicates whether a match was found. If
  2034. matching a regular expression, the return value will be the
  2035. array returned by the <code>match</code> method, in case you
  2036. want to extract matched groups.</dd>
  2037. <dt><code><strong>from</strong>() → {line, ch}</code></dt>
  2038. <dt><code><strong>to</strong>() → {line, ch}</code></dt>
  2039. <dd>These are only valid when the last call
  2040. to <code>findNext</code> or <code>findPrevious</code> did
  2041. not return false. They will return <code>{line, ch}</code>
  2042. objects pointing at the start and end of the match.</dd>
  2043. <dt><code><strong>replace</strong>(text: string, ?origin: string)</code></dt>
  2044. <dd>Replaces the currently found match with the given text
  2045. and adjusts the cursor position to reflect the
  2046. replacement.</dd>
  2047. </dl></dd>
  2048. <dt id="addon_search"><a href="../addon/search/search.js"><code>search/search.js</code></a></dt>
  2049. <dd>Implements the search commands. CodeMirror has keys bound to
  2050. these by default, but will not do anything with them unless an
  2051. implementation is provided. Depends
  2052. on <code>searchcursor.js</code>, and will make use
  2053. of <a href="#addon_dialog"><code>openDialog</code></a> when
  2054. available to make prompting for search queries less ugly.</dd>
  2055. <dt id="addon_jump-to-line"><a href="../addon/search/jump-to-line.js"><code>search/jump-to-line.js</code></a></dt>
  2056. <dd>Implements a <code>jumpToLine</code> command and binding <code>Alt-G</code> to it.
  2057. Accepts <code>linenumber</code>, <code>+/-linenumber</code>, <code>line:char</code>,
  2058. <code>scroll%</code> and <code>:linenumber</code> formats.
  2059. This will make use of <a href="#addon_dialog"><code>openDialog</code></a>
  2060. when available to make prompting for line number neater.</dd>
  2061. <dt id="addon_matchesonscrollbar"><a href="../addon/search/matchesonscrollbar.js"><code>search/matchesonscrollbar.js</code></a></dt>
  2062. <dd>Adds a <code>showMatchesOnScrollbar</code> method to editor
  2063. instances, which should be given a query (string or regular
  2064. expression), optionally a case-fold flag (only applicable for
  2065. strings), and optionally a class name (defaults
  2066. to <code>CodeMirror-search-match</code>) as arguments. When
  2067. called, matches of the given query will be displayed on the
  2068. editor's vertical scrollbar. The method returns an object with
  2069. a <code>clear</code> method that can be called to remove the
  2070. matches. Depends on
  2071. the <a href="#addon_annotatescrollbar"><code>annotatescrollbar</code></a>
  2072. addon, and
  2073. the <a href="../addon/search/matchesonscrollbar.css"><code>matchesonscrollbar.css</code></a>
  2074. file provides a default (transparent yellowish) definition of
  2075. the CSS class applied to the matches. Note that the matches are
  2076. only perfectly aligned if your scrollbar does not have buttons
  2077. at the top and bottom. You can use
  2078. the <a href="#addon_simplescrollbars"><code>simplescrollbar</code></a>
  2079. addon to make sure of this. If this addon is loaded,
  2080. the <a href="#addon_search"><code>search</code></a> addon will
  2081. automatically use it.</dd>
  2082. <dt id="addon_matchbrackets"><a href="../addon/edit/matchbrackets.js"><code>edit/matchbrackets.js</code></a></dt>
  2083. <dd>Defines an option <code>matchBrackets</code> which, when set
  2084. to true or an options object, causes matching brackets to be
  2085. highlighted whenever the cursor is next to them. It also adds a
  2086. method <code>matchBrackets</code> that forces this to happen
  2087. once, and a method <code>findMatchingBracket</code> that can be
  2088. used to run the bracket-finding algorithm that this uses
  2089. internally. It takes a start position and an optional config
  2090. object. By default, it will find the match to a matchable
  2091. character either before or after the cursor (preferring the one
  2092. before), but you can control its behavior with these options:
  2093. <dl>
  2094. <dt><strong><code>afterCursor</code></strong></dt>
  2095. <dd>Only use the character after the start position, never the one before it.</dd>
  2096. <dt><strong><code>strict</code></strong></dt>
  2097. <dd>Causes only matches where both brackets are at the same side of the start position to be considered.</dd>
  2098. <dt><strong><code>maxScanLines</code></strong></dt>
  2099. <dd>Stop after scanning this amount of lines without a successful match. Defaults to 1000.</dd>
  2100. <dt><strong><code>maxScanLineLength</code></strong></dt>
  2101. <dd>Ignore lines longer than this. Defaults to 10000.</dd>
  2102. <dt><strong><code>maxHighlightLineLength</code></strong></dt>
  2103. <dd>Don't highlight a bracket in a line longer than this. Defaults to 1000.</dd>
  2104. </dl></dd>
  2105. <dt id="addon_closebrackets"><a href="../addon/edit/closebrackets.js"><code>edit/closebrackets.js</code></a></dt>
  2106. <dd>Defines an option <code>autoCloseBrackets</code> that will
  2107. auto-close brackets and quotes when typed. By default, it'll
  2108. auto-close <code>()[]{}''""</code>, but you can pass it a string
  2109. similar to that (containing pairs of matching characters), or an
  2110. object with <code>pairs</code> and
  2111. optionally <code>explode</code> properties to customize
  2112. it. <code>explode</code> should be a similar string that gives
  2113. the pairs of characters that, when enter is pressed between
  2114. them, should have the second character also moved to its own
  2115. line. By default, if the active mode has
  2116. a <code>closeBrackets</code> property, that overrides the
  2117. configuration given in the option. But you can add
  2118. an <code>override</code> property with a truthy value to
  2119. override mode-specific
  2120. configuration. <a href="../demo/closebrackets.html">Demo
  2121. here</a>.</dd>
  2122. <dt id="addon_matchtags"><a href="../addon/edit/matchtags.js"><code>edit/matchtags.js</code></a></dt>
  2123. <dd>Defines an option <code>matchTags</code> that, when enabled,
  2124. will cause the tags around the cursor to be highlighted (using
  2125. the <code>CodeMirror-matchingtag</code> class). Also
  2126. defines
  2127. a <a href="#commands">command</a> <code>toMatchingTag</code>,
  2128. which you can bind a key to in order to jump to the tag matching
  2129. the one under the cursor. Depends on
  2130. the <code>addon/fold/xml-fold.js</code>
  2131. addon. <a href="../demo/matchtags.html">Demo here.</a></dd>
  2132. <dt id="addon_trailingspace"><a href="../addon/edit/trailingspace.js"><code>edit/trailingspace.js</code></a></dt>
  2133. <dd>Adds an option <code>showTrailingSpace</code> which, when
  2134. enabled, adds the CSS class <code>cm-trailingspace</code> to
  2135. stretches of whitespace at the end of lines.
  2136. The <a href="../demo/trailingspace.html">demo</a> has a nice
  2137. squiggly underline style for this class.</dd>
  2138. <dt id="addon_closetag"><a href="../addon/edit/closetag.js"><code>edit/closetag.js</code></a></dt>
  2139. <dd>Defines an <code>autoCloseTags</code> option that will
  2140. auto-close XML tags when '<code>&gt;</code>' or '<code>/</code>'
  2141. is typed, and
  2142. a <code>closeTag</code> <a href="#commands">command</a> that
  2143. closes the nearest open tag. Depends on
  2144. the <code>fold/xml-fold.js</code> addon. See
  2145. the <a href="../demo/closetag.html">demo</a>.</dd>
  2146. <dt id="addon_continuelist"><a href="../addon/edit/continuelist.js"><code>edit/continuelist.js</code></a></dt>
  2147. <dd>Markdown specific. Defines
  2148. a <code>"newlineAndIndentContinueMarkdownList"</code> <a href="#commands">command</a>
  2149. that can be bound to <code>enter</code> to automatically
  2150. insert the leading characters for continuing a list. See
  2151. the <a href="../mode/markdown/index.html">Markdown mode
  2152. demo</a>.</dd>
  2153. <dt id="addon_comment"><a href="../addon/comment/comment.js"><code>comment/comment.js</code></a></dt>
  2154. <dd>Addon for commenting and uncommenting code. Adds four
  2155. methods to CodeMirror instances:
  2156. <dl>
  2157. <dt id="toggleComment"><code><strong>toggleComment</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  2158. <dd>Tries to uncomment the current selection, and if that
  2159. fails, line-comments it.</dd>
  2160. <dt id="lineComment"><code><strong>lineComment</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  2161. <dd>Set the lines in the given range to be line comments. Will
  2162. fall back to <code>blockComment</code> when no line comment
  2163. style is defined for the mode.</dd>
  2164. <dt id="blockComment"><code><strong>blockComment</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  2165. <dd>Wrap the code in the given range in a block comment. Will
  2166. fall back to <code>lineComment</code> when no block comment
  2167. style is defined for the mode.</dd>
  2168. <dt id="uncomment"><code><strong>uncomment</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?options: object) → boolean</code></dt>
  2169. <dd>Try to uncomment the given range.
  2170. Returns <code>true</code> if a comment range was found and
  2171. removed, <code>false</code> otherwise.</dd>
  2172. </dl>
  2173. The <code>options</code> object accepted by these methods may
  2174. have the following properties:
  2175. <dl>
  2176. <dt><code>blockCommentStart, blockCommentEnd, blockCommentLead, lineComment: string</code></dt>
  2177. <dd>Override the <a href="#mode_comment">comment string
  2178. properties</a> of the mode with custom comment strings.</dd>
  2179. <dt><code><strong>padding</strong>: string</code></dt>
  2180. <dd>A string that will be inserted after opening and leading
  2181. markers, and before closing comment markers. Defaults to a
  2182. single space.</dd>
  2183. <dt><code><strong>commentBlankLines</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2184. <dd>Whether, when adding line comments, to also comment lines
  2185. that contain only whitespace.</dd>
  2186. <dt><code><strong>indent</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2187. <dd>When adding line comments and this is turned on, it will
  2188. align the comment block to the current indentation of the
  2189. first line of the block.</dd>
  2190. <dt><code><strong>fullLines</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2191. <dd>When block commenting, this controls whether the whole
  2192. lines are indented, or only the precise range that is given.
  2193. Defaults to <code>true</code>.</dd>
  2194. </dl>
  2195. The addon also defines
  2196. a <code>toggleComment</code> <a href="#commands">command</a>,
  2197. which is a shorthand command for calling
  2198. <code>toggleComment</code> with no options.</dd>
  2199. <dt id="addon_foldcode"><a href="../addon/fold/foldcode.js"><code>fold/foldcode.js</code></a></dt>
  2200. <dd>Helps with code folding. Adds a <code>foldCode</code> method
  2201. to editor instances, which will try to do a code fold starting
  2202. at the given line, or unfold the fold that is already present.
  2203. The method takes as first argument the position that should be
  2204. folded (may be a line number or
  2205. a <a href="#Pos"><code>Pos</code></a>), and as second optional
  2206. argument either a range-finder function, or an options object,
  2207. supporting the following properties:
  2208. <dl>
  2209. <dt><code><strong>rangeFinder</strong>: fn(CodeMirror, Pos)</code></dt>
  2210. <dd id="helper_fold_auto">The function that is used to find
  2211. foldable ranges. If this is not directly passed, it will
  2212. default to <code>CodeMirror.fold.auto</code>, which
  2213. uses <a href="#getHelpers"><code>getHelpers</code></a> with
  2214. a <code>"fold"</code> type to find folding functions
  2215. appropriate for the local mode. There are files in
  2216. the <a href="../addon/fold/"><code>addon/fold/</code></a>
  2217. directory providing <code>CodeMirror.fold.brace</code>, which
  2218. finds blocks in brace languages (JavaScript, C, Java,
  2219. etc), <code>CodeMirror.fold.indent</code>, for languages where
  2220. indentation determines block structure (Python, Haskell),
  2221. and <code>CodeMirror.fold.xml</code>, for XML-style languages,
  2222. and <code>CodeMirror.fold.comment</code>, for folding comment
  2223. blocks.</dd>
  2224. <dt><code><strong>widget</strong>: string|Element</code></dt>
  2225. <dd>The widget to show for folded ranges. Can be either a
  2226. string, in which case it'll become a span with
  2227. class <code>CodeMirror-foldmarker</code>, or a DOM node.</dd>
  2228. <dt><code><strong>scanUp</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2229. <dd>When true (default is false), the addon will try to find
  2230. foldable ranges on the lines above the current one if there
  2231. isn't an eligible one on the given line.</dd>
  2232. <dt><code><strong>minFoldSize</strong>: integer</code></dt>
  2233. <dd>The minimum amount of lines that a fold should span to be
  2234. accepted. Defaults to 0, which also allows single-line
  2235. folds.</dd>
  2236. </dl>
  2237. See <a href="../demo/folding.html">the demo</a> for an
  2238. example.</dd>
  2239. <dt id="addon_foldgutter"><a href="../addon/fold/foldgutter.js"><code>fold/foldgutter.js</code></a></dt>
  2240. <dd>Provides an option <code>foldGutter</code>, which can be
  2241. used to create a gutter with markers indicating the blocks that
  2242. can be folded. Create a gutter using
  2243. the <a href="#option_gutters"><code>gutters</code></a> option,
  2244. giving it the class <code>CodeMirror-foldgutter</code> or
  2245. something else if you configure the addon to use a different
  2246. class, and this addon will show markers next to folded and
  2247. foldable blocks, and handle clicks in this gutter. Note that
  2248. CSS styles should be applied to make the gutter, and the fold
  2249. markers within it, visible. A default set of CSS styles are
  2250. available in:
  2251. <a href="../addon/fold/foldgutter.css">
  2252. <code>addon/fold/foldgutter.css</code>
  2253. </a>.
  2254. The option
  2255. can be either set to <code>true</code>, or an object containing
  2256. the following optional option fields:
  2257. <dl>
  2258. <dt><code><strong>gutter</strong>: string</code></dt>
  2259. <dd>The CSS class of the gutter. Defaults
  2260. to <code>"CodeMirror-foldgutter"</code>. You will have to
  2261. style this yourself to give it a width (and possibly a
  2262. background). See the default gutter style rules above.</dd>
  2263. <dt><code><strong>indicatorOpen</strong>: string | Element</code></dt>
  2264. <dd>A CSS class or DOM element to be used as the marker for
  2265. open, foldable blocks. Defaults
  2266. to <code>"CodeMirror-foldgutter-open"</code>.</dd>
  2267. <dt><code><strong>indicatorFolded</strong>: string | Element</code></dt>
  2268. <dd>A CSS class or DOM element to be used as the marker for
  2269. folded blocks. Defaults to <code>"CodeMirror-foldgutter-folded"</code>.</dd>
  2270. <dt><code><strong>rangeFinder</strong>: fn(CodeMirror, Pos)</code></dt>
  2271. <dd>The range-finder function to use when determining whether
  2272. something can be folded. When not
  2273. given, <a href="#helper_fold_auto"><code>CodeMirror.fold.auto</code></a>
  2274. will be used as default.</dd>
  2275. </dl>
  2276. The <code>foldOptions</code> editor option can be set to an
  2277. object to provide an editor-wide default configuration.
  2278. Demo <a href="../demo/folding.html">here</a>.</dd>
  2279. <dt id="addon_runmode"><a href="../addon/runmode/runmode.js"><code>runmode/runmode.js</code></a></dt>
  2280. <dd>Can be used to run a CodeMirror mode over text without
  2281. actually opening an editor instance.
  2282. See <a href="../demo/runmode.html">the demo</a> for an example.
  2283. There are alternate versions of the file available for
  2284. running <a href="../addon/runmode/runmode-standalone.js">stand-alone</a>
  2285. (without including all of CodeMirror) and
  2286. for <a href="../addon/runmode/runmode.node.js">running under
  2287. node.js</a> (see <code>bin/source-highlight</code> for an example of using the latter).</dd>
  2288. <dt id="addon_colorize"><a href="../addon/runmode/colorize.js"><code>runmode/colorize.js</code></a></dt>
  2289. <dd>Provides a convenient way to syntax-highlight code snippets
  2290. in a webpage. Depends on
  2291. the <a href="#addon_runmode"><code>runmode</code></a> addon (or
  2292. its standalone variant). Provides
  2293. a <code>CodeMirror.colorize</code> function that can be called
  2294. with an array (or other array-ish collection) of DOM nodes that
  2295. represent the code snippets. By default, it'll get
  2296. all <code>pre</code> tags. Will read the <code>data-lang</code>
  2297. attribute of these nodes to figure out their language, and
  2298. syntax-color their content using the relevant CodeMirror mode
  2299. (you'll have to load the scripts for the relevant modes
  2300. yourself). A second argument may be provided to give a default
  2301. mode, used when no language attribute is found for a node. Used
  2302. in this manual to highlight example code.</dd>
  2303. <dt id="addon_overlay"><a href="../addon/mode/overlay.js"><code>mode/overlay.js</code></a></dt>
  2304. <dd>Mode combinator that can be used to extend a mode with an
  2305. 'overlay' — a secondary mode is run over the stream, along with
  2306. the base mode, and can color specific pieces of text without
  2307. interfering with the base mode.
  2308. Defines <code>CodeMirror.overlayMode</code>, which is used to
  2309. create such a mode. See <a href="../demo/mustache.html">this
  2310. demo</a> for a detailed example.</dd>
  2311. <dt id="addon_multiplex"><a href="../addon/mode/multiplex.js"><code>mode/multiplex.js</code></a></dt>
  2312. <dd>Mode combinator that can be used to easily 'multiplex'
  2313. between several modes.
  2314. Defines <code>CodeMirror.multiplexingMode</code> which, when
  2315. given as first argument a mode object, and as other arguments
  2316. any number of <code>{open, close, mode [, delimStyle, innerStyle, parseDelimiters]}</code>
  2317. objects, will return a mode object that starts parsing using the
  2318. mode passed as first argument, but will switch to another mode
  2319. as soon as it encounters a string that occurs in one of
  2320. the <code>open</code> fields of the passed objects. When in a
  2321. sub-mode, it will go back to the top mode again when
  2322. the <code>close</code> string is encountered.
  2323. Pass <code>"\n"</code> for <code>open</code> or <code>close</code>
  2324. if you want to switch on a blank line.
  2325. <ul><li>When <code>delimStyle</code> is specified, it will be the token
  2326. style returned for the delimiter tokens (as well as
  2327. <code>[delimStyle]-open</code> on the opening token and
  2328. <code>[delimStyle]-close</code> on the closing token).</li>
  2329. <li>When <code>innerStyle</code> is specified, it will be the token
  2330. style added for each inner mode token.</li>
  2331. <li>When <code>parseDelimiters</code> is true, the content of
  2332. the delimiters will also be passed to the inner mode.
  2333. (And <code>delimStyle</code> is ignored.)</li></ul> The outer
  2334. mode will not see the content between the delimiters.
  2335. See <a href="../demo/multiplex.html">this demo</a> for an
  2336. example.</dd>
  2337. <dt id="addon_show-hint"><a href="../addon/hint/show-hint.js"><code>hint/show-hint.js</code></a></dt>
  2338. <dd>Provides a framework for showing autocompletion hints.
  2339. Defines <code>editor.showHint</code>, which takes an optional
  2340. options object, and pops up a widget that allows the user to
  2341. select a completion. Finding hints is done with a hinting
  2342. functions (the <code>hint</code> option), which is a function
  2343. that take an editor instance and options object, and return
  2344. a <code>{list, from, to}</code> object, where <code>list</code>
  2345. is an array of strings or objects (the completions),
  2346. and <code>from</code> and <code>to</code> give the start and end
  2347. of the token that is being completed as <code>{line, ch}</code>
  2348. objects. An optional <code>selectedHint</code> property (an
  2349. integer) can be added to the completion object to control the
  2350. initially selected hint.</dd>
  2351. <dd>If no hinting function is given, the addon will
  2352. use <code>CodeMirror.hint.auto</code>, which
  2353. calls <a href="#getHelpers"><code>getHelpers</code></a> with
  2354. the <code>"hint"</code> type to find applicable hinting
  2355. functions, and tries them one by one. If that fails, it looks
  2356. for a <code>"hintWords"</code> helper to fetch a list of
  2357. completable words for the mode, and
  2358. uses <code>CodeMirror.hint.fromList</code> to complete from
  2359. those.</dd>
  2360. <dd>When completions aren't simple strings, they should be
  2361. objects with the following properties:
  2362. <dl>
  2363. <dt><code><strong>text</strong>: string</code></dt>
  2364. <dd>The completion text. This is the only required
  2365. property.</dd>
  2366. <dt><code><strong>displayText</strong>: string</code></dt>
  2367. <dd>The text that should be displayed in the menu.</dd>
  2368. <dt><code><strong>className</strong>: string</code></dt>
  2369. <dd>A CSS class name to apply to the completion's line in the
  2370. menu.</dd>
  2371. <dt><code><strong>render</strong>: fn(Element, self, data)</code></dt>
  2372. <dd>A method used to create the DOM structure for showing the
  2373. completion by appending it to its first argument.</dd>
  2374. <dt><code><strong>hint</strong>: fn(CodeMirror, self, data)</code></dt>
  2375. <dd>A method used to actually apply the completion, instead of
  2376. the default behavior.</dd>
  2377. <dt><code><strong>from</strong>: {line, ch}</code></dt>
  2378. <dd>Optional <code>from</code> position that will be used by <code>pick()</code> instead
  2379. of the global one passed with the full list of completions.</dd>
  2380. <dt><code><strong>to</strong>: {line, ch}</code></dt>
  2381. <dd>Optional <code>to</code> position that will be used by <code>pick()</code> instead
  2382. of the global one passed with the full list of completions.</dd>
  2383. </dl></dd>
  2384. <dd>The plugin understands the following options, which may be
  2385. either passed directly in the argument to <code>showHint</code>,
  2386. or provided by setting an <code>hintOptions</code> editor
  2387. option to an object (the former takes precedence). The options
  2388. object will also be passed along to the hinting function, which
  2389. may understand additional options.
  2390. <dl>
  2391. <dt><code><strong>hint</strong>: function</code></dt>
  2392. <dd>A hinting function, as specified above. It is possible to
  2393. set the <code>async</code> property on a hinting function to
  2394. true, in which case it will be called with
  2395. arguments <code>(cm, callback, ?options)</code>, and the
  2396. completion interface will only be popped up when the hinting
  2397. function calls the callback, passing it the object holding the
  2398. completions.
  2399. The hinting function can also return a promise, and the completion
  2400. interface will only be popped when the promise resolves.
  2401. By default, hinting only works when there is no
  2402. selection. You can give a hinting function
  2403. a <code>supportsSelection</code> property with a truthy value
  2404. to indicate that it supports selections.</dd>
  2405. <dt><code><strong>completeSingle</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2406. <dd>Determines whether, when only a single completion is
  2407. available, it is completed without showing the dialog.
  2408. Defaults to true.</dd>
  2409. <dt><code><strong>alignWithWord</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2410. <dd>Whether the pop-up should be horizontally aligned with the
  2411. start of the word (true, default), or with the cursor (false).</dd>
  2412. <dt><code><strong>closeOnUnfocus</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2413. <dd>When enabled (which is the default), the pop-up will close
  2414. when the editor is unfocused.</dd>
  2415. <dt><code><strong>customKeys</strong>: keymap</code></dt>
  2416. <dd>Allows you to provide a custom key map of keys to be active
  2417. when the pop-up is active. The handlers will be called with an
  2418. extra argument, a handle to the completion menu, which
  2419. has <code>moveFocus(n)</code>, <code>setFocus(n)</code>, <code>pick()</code>,
  2420. and <code>close()</code> methods (see the source for details),
  2421. that can be used to change the focused element, pick the
  2422. current element or close the menu. Additionally <code>menuSize()</code>
  2423. can give you access to the size of the current dropdown menu,
  2424. <code>length</code> give you the number of available completions, and
  2425. <code>data</code> give you full access to the completion returned by the
  2426. hinting function.</dd>
  2427. <dt><code><strong>extraKeys</strong>: keymap</code></dt>
  2428. <dd>Like <code>customKeys</code> above, but the bindings will
  2429. be added to the set of default bindings, instead of replacing
  2430. them.</dd>
  2431. </dl>
  2432. The following events will be fired on the completions object
  2433. during completion:
  2434. <dl>
  2435. <dt><code><strong>"shown"</strong> ()</code></dt>
  2436. <dd>Fired when the pop-up is shown.</dd>
  2437. <dt><code><strong>"select"</strong> (completion, Element)</code></dt>
  2438. <dd>Fired when a completion is selected. Passed the completion
  2439. value (string or object) and the DOM node that represents it
  2440. in the menu.</dd>
  2441. <dt><code><strong>"pick"</strong> (completion)</code></dt>
  2442. <dd>Fired when a completion is picked. Passed the completion value
  2443. (string or object).</dd>
  2444. <dt><code><strong>"close"</strong> ()</code></dt>
  2445. <dd>Fired when the completion is finished.</dd>
  2446. </dl>
  2447. This addon depends on styles
  2448. from <code>addon/hint/show-hint.css</code>. Check
  2449. out <a href="../demo/complete.html">the demo</a> for an
  2450. example.</dd>
  2451. <dt id="addon_javascript-hint"><a href="../addon/hint/javascript-hint.js"><code>hint/javascript-hint.js</code></a></dt>
  2452. <dd>Defines a simple hinting function for JavaScript
  2453. (<code>CodeMirror.hint.javascript</code>) and CoffeeScript
  2454. (<code>CodeMirror.hint.coffeescript</code>) code. This will
  2455. simply use the JavaScript environment that the editor runs in as
  2456. a source of information about objects and their properties.</dd>
  2457. <dt id="addon_xml-hint"><a href="../addon/hint/xml-hint.js"><code>hint/xml-hint.js</code></a></dt>
  2458. <dd>Defines <code>CodeMirror.hint.xml</code>, which produces
  2459. hints for XML tagnames, attribute names, and attribute values,
  2460. guided by a <code>schemaInfo</code> option (a property of the
  2461. second argument passed to the hinting function, or the third
  2462. argument passed to <code>CodeMirror.showHint</code>).<br>The
  2463. schema info should be an object mapping tag names to information
  2464. about these tags, with optionally a <code>"!top"</code> property
  2465. containing a list of the names of valid top-level tags. The
  2466. values of the properties should be objects with optional
  2467. properties <code>children</code> (an array of valid child
  2468. element names, omit to simply allow all tags to appear)
  2469. and <code>attrs</code> (an object mapping attribute names
  2470. to <code>null</code> for free-form attributes, and an array of
  2471. valid values for restricted
  2472. attributes). <a href="../demo/xmlcomplete.html">Demo
  2473. here.</a></dd>
  2474. <dt id="addon_html-hint"><a href="../addon/hint/html-hint.js"><code>hint/html-hint.js</code></a></dt>
  2475. <dd>Provides schema info to
  2476. the <a href="#addon_xml-hint">xml-hint</a> addon for HTML
  2477. documents. Defines a schema
  2478. object <code>CodeMirror.htmlSchema</code> that you can pass to
  2479. as a <code>schemaInfo</code> option, and
  2480. a <code>CodeMirror.hint.html</code> hinting function that
  2481. automatically calls <code>CodeMirror.hint.xml</code> with this
  2482. schema data. See
  2483. the <a href="../demo/html5complete.html">demo</a>.</dd>
  2484. <dt id="addon_css-hint"><a href="../addon/hint/css-hint.js"><code>hint/css-hint.js</code></a></dt>
  2485. <dd>A hinting function for CSS, SCSS, or LESS code.
  2486. Defines <code>CodeMirror.hint.css</code>.</dd>
  2487. <dt id="addon_anyword-hint"><a href="../addon/hint/anyword-hint.js"><code>hint/anyword-hint.js</code></a></dt>
  2488. <dd>A very simple hinting function
  2489. (<code>CodeMirror.hint.anyword</code>) that simply looks for
  2490. words in the nearby code and completes to those. Takes two
  2491. optional options, <code>word</code>, a regular expression that
  2492. matches words (sequences of one or more character),
  2493. and <code>range</code>, which defines how many lines the addon
  2494. should scan when completing (defaults to 500).</dd>
  2495. <dt id="addon_sql-hint"><a href="../addon/hint/sql-hint.js"><code>hint/sql-hint.js</code></a></dt>
  2496. <dd>A simple SQL hinter. Defines <code>CodeMirror.hint.sql</code>.
  2497. Takes two optional options, <code>tables</code>, a object with
  2498. table names as keys and array of respective column names as values,
  2499. and <code>defaultTable</code>, a string corresponding to a
  2500. table name in <code>tables</code> for autocompletion.</dd>
  2501. <dt id="addon_match-highlighter"><a href="../addon/search/match-highlighter.js"><code>search/match-highlighter.js</code></a></dt>
  2502. <dd>Adds a <code>highlightSelectionMatches</code> option that
  2503. can be enabled to highlight all instances of a currently
  2504. selected word. Can be set either to true or to an object
  2505. containing the following options: <code>minChars</code>, for the
  2506. minimum amount of selected characters that triggers a highlight
  2507. (default 2), <code>style</code>, for the style to be used to
  2508. highlight the matches (default <code>"matchhighlight"</code>,
  2509. which will correspond to CSS
  2510. class <code>cm-matchhighlight</code>), <code>trim</code>, which
  2511. controls whether whitespace is trimmed from the selection,
  2512. and <code>showToken</code> which can be set to <code>true</code>
  2513. or to a regexp matching the characters that make up a word. When
  2514. enabled, it causes the current word to be highlighted when
  2515. nothing is selected (defaults to off).
  2516. Demo <a href="../demo/matchhighlighter.html">here</a>.</dd>
  2517. <dt id="addon_lint"><a href="../addon/lint/lint.js"><code>lint/lint.js</code></a></dt>
  2518. <dd>Defines an interface component for showing linting warnings,
  2519. with pluggable warning sources
  2520. (see <a href="../addon/lint/html-lint.js"><code>html-lint.js</code></a>,
  2521. <a href="../addon/lint/json-lint.js"><code>json-lint.js</code></a>,
  2522. <a href="../addon/lint/javascript-lint.js"><code>javascript-lint.js</code></a>,
  2523. <a href="../addon/lint/coffeescript-lint.js"><code>coffeescript-lint.js</code></a>,
  2524. and <a href="../addon/lint/css-lint.js"><code>css-lint.js</code></a>
  2525. in the same directory). Defines a <code>lint</code> option that
  2526. can be set to an annotation source (for
  2527. example <code>CodeMirror.lint.javascript</code>), to an options
  2528. object (in which case the <code>getAnnotations</code> field is
  2529. used as annotation source), or simply to <code>true</code>. When
  2530. no annotation source is
  2531. specified, <a href="#getHelper"><code>getHelper</code></a> with
  2532. type <code>"lint"</code> is used to find an annotation function.
  2533. An annotation source function should, when given a document
  2534. string, an options object, and an editor instance, return an
  2535. array of <code>{message, severity, from, to}</code> objects
  2536. representing problems. When the function has
  2537. an <code>async</code> property with a truthy value, it will be
  2538. called with an additional second argument, which is a callback
  2539. to pass the array to.
  2540. The linting function can also return a promise, in that case the linter
  2541. will only be executed when the promise resolves.
  2542. By default, the linter will run (debounced) whenever the document is changed.
  2543. You can pass a <code>lintOnChange: false</code> option to disable that.
  2544. Depends on <code>addon/lint/lint.css</code>. A demo can be
  2545. found <a href="../demo/lint.html">here</a>.</dd>
  2546. <dt id="addon_mark-selection"><a href="../addon/selection/mark-selection.js"><code>selection/mark-selection.js</code></a></dt>
  2547. <dd>Causes the selected text to be marked with the CSS class
  2548. <code>CodeMirror-selectedtext</code> when the <code>styleSelectedText</code> option
  2549. is enabled. Useful to change the colour of the selection (in addition to the background),
  2550. like in <a href="../demo/markselection.html">this demo</a>.</dd>
  2551. <dt id="addon_active-line"><a href="../addon/selection/active-line.js"><code>selection/active-line.js</code></a></dt>
  2552. <dd>Defines a <code>styleActiveLine</code> option that, when
  2553. enabled, gives the wrapper of the line that contains the cursor
  2554. the class <code>CodeMirror-activeline</code>, adds a background
  2555. with the class <code>CodeMirror-activeline-background</code>,
  2556. and adds the class <code>CodeMirror-activeline-gutter</code> to
  2557. the line's gutter space is enabled. The option's value may be a
  2558. boolean or an object specifying the following options:
  2559. <dl>
  2560. <dt><code><strong>nonEmpty</strong>: bool</code></dt>
  2561. <dd>Controls whether single-line selections, or just cursor
  2562. selections, are styled. Defaults to false (only cursor
  2563. selections).</dd>
  2564. </dl>
  2565. See the <a href="../demo/activeline.html">demo</a>.</dd>
  2566. <dt id="addon_selection-pointer"><a href="../addon/selection/selection-pointer.js"><code>selection/selection-pointer.js</code></a></dt>
  2567. <dd>Defines a <code>selectionPointer</code> option which you can
  2568. use to control the mouse cursor appearance when hovering over
  2569. the selection. It can be set to a string,
  2570. like <code>"pointer"</code>, or to true, in which case
  2571. the <code>"default"</code> (arrow) cursor will be used. You can
  2572. see a demo <a href="../mode/htmlmixed/index.html">here</a>.</dd>
  2573. <dt id="addon_loadmode"><a href="../addon/mode/loadmode.js"><code>mode/loadmode.js</code></a></dt>
  2574. <dd>Defines a <code>CodeMirror.requireMode(modename,
  2575. callback)</code> function that will try to load a given mode and
  2576. call the callback when it succeeded. You'll have to
  2577. set <code>CodeMirror.modeURL</code> to a string that mode paths
  2578. can be constructed from, for
  2579. example <code>"mode/%N/%N.js"</code>—the <code>%N</code>'s will
  2580. be replaced with the mode name. Also
  2581. defines <code>CodeMirror.autoLoadMode(instance, mode)</code>,
  2582. which will ensure the given mode is loaded and cause the given
  2583. editor instance to refresh its mode when the loading
  2584. succeeded. See the <a href="../demo/loadmode.html">demo</a>.</dd>
  2585. <dt id="addon_meta"><a href="../mode/meta.js"><code>mode/meta.js</code></a></dt>
  2586. <dd>Provides meta-information about all the modes in the
  2587. distribution in a single file.
  2588. Defines <code>CodeMirror.modeInfo</code>, an array of objects
  2589. with <code>{name, mime, mode}</code> properties,
  2590. where <code>name</code> is the human-readable
  2591. name, <code>mime</code> the MIME type, and <code>mode</code> the
  2592. name of the mode file that defines this MIME. There are optional
  2593. properties <code>mimes</code>, which holds an array of MIME
  2594. types for modes with multiple MIMEs associated,
  2595. and <code>ext</code>, which holds an array of file extensions
  2596. associated with this mode. Four convenience
  2597. functions, <code>CodeMirror.findModeByMIME</code>,
  2598. <code>CodeMirror.findModeByExtension</code>,
  2599. <code>CodeMirror.findModeByFileName</code>
  2600. and <code>CodeMirror.findModeByName</code> are provided, which
  2601. return such an object given a MIME, extension, file name or mode name
  2602. string. Note that, for historical reasons, this file resides in the
  2603. top-level <code>mode</code> directory, not
  2604. under <code>addon</code>. <a href="../demo/loadmode.html">Demo</a>.</dd>
  2605. <dt id="addon_continuecomment"><a href="../addon/comment/continuecomment.js"><code>comment/continuecomment.js</code></a></dt>
  2606. <dd>Adds a <code>continueComments</code> option, which sets whether the
  2607. editor will make the next line continue a comment when you press Enter
  2608. inside a comment block. Can be set to a boolean to enable/disable this
  2609. functionality. Set to a string, it will continue comments using a custom
  2610. shortcut. Set to an object, it will use the <code>key</code> property for
  2611. a custom shortcut and the boolean <code>continueLineComment</code>
  2612. property to determine whether single-line comments should be continued
  2613. (defaulting to <code>true</code>).</dd>
  2614. <dt id="addon_placeholder"><a href="../addon/display/placeholder.js"><code>display/placeholder.js</code></a></dt>
  2615. <dd>Adds a <code>placeholder</code> option that can be used to
  2616. make content appear in the editor when it is empty and not
  2617. focused. It can hold either a string or a DOM node. Also gives
  2618. the editor a <code>CodeMirror-empty</code> CSS class whenever it
  2619. doesn't contain any text.
  2620. See <a href="../demo/placeholder.html">the demo</a>.</dd>
  2621. <dt id="addon_fullscreen"><a href="../addon/display/fullscreen.js"><code>display/fullscreen.js</code></a></dt>
  2622. <dd>Defines an option <code>fullScreen</code> that, when set
  2623. to <code>true</code>, will make the editor full-screen (as in,
  2624. taking up the whole browser window). Depends
  2625. on <a href="../addon/display/fullscreen.css"><code>fullscreen.css</code></a>. <a href="../demo/fullscreen.html">Demo
  2626. here</a>.</dd>
  2627. <dt id="addon_autorefresh"><a href="../addon/display/autorefresh.js"><code>display/autorefresh.js</code></a></dt>
  2628. <dd>This addon can be useful when initializing an editor in a
  2629. hidden DOM node, in cases where it is difficult to
  2630. call <a href="#refresh"><code>refresh</code></a> when the editor
  2631. becomes visible. It defines an option <code>autoRefresh</code>
  2632. which you can set to true to ensure that, if the editor wasn't
  2633. visible on initialization, it will be refreshed the first time
  2634. it becomes visible. This is done by polling every 250
  2635. milliseconds (you can pass a value like <code>{delay:
  2636. 500}</code> as the option value to configure this). Note that
  2637. this addon will only refresh the editor <em>once</em> when it
  2638. first becomes visible, and won't take care of further restyling
  2639. and resizing.</dd>
  2640. <dt id="addon_simplescrollbars"><a href="../addon/scroll/simplescrollbars.js"><code>scroll/simplescrollbars.js</code></a></dt>
  2641. <dd>Defines two additional scrollbar
  2642. models, <code>"simple"</code> and <code>"overlay"</code>
  2643. (see <a href="../demo/simplescrollbars.html">demo</a>) that can
  2644. be selected with
  2645. the <a href="#option_scrollbarStyle"><code>scrollbarStyle</code></a>
  2646. option. Depends
  2647. on <a href="../addon/scroll/simplescrollbars.css"><code>simplescrollbars.css</code></a>,
  2648. which can be further overridden to style your own
  2649. scrollbars.</dd>
  2650. <dt id="addon_annotatescrollbar"><a href="../addon/scroll/annotatescrollbar.js"><code>scroll/annotatescrollbar.js</code></a></dt>
  2651. <dd>Provides functionality for showing markers on the scrollbar
  2652. to call out certain parts of the document. Adds a
  2653. method <code>annotateScrollbar</code> to editor instances that
  2654. can be called, with a CSS class name as argument, to create a
  2655. set of annotations. The method returns an object
  2656. whose <code>update</code> method can be called with a sorted array
  2657. of <code>{from: Pos, to: Pos}</code> objects marking the ranges
  2658. to be highlighted. To detach the annotations, call the
  2659. object's <code>clear</code> method.</dd>
  2660. <dt id="addon_rulers"><a href="../addon/display/rulers.js"><code>display/rulers.js</code></a></dt>
  2661. <dd>Adds a <code>rulers</code> option, which can be used to show
  2662. one or more vertical rulers in the editor. The option, if
  2663. defined, should be given an array of <code>{column [, className,
  2664. color, lineStyle, width]}</code> objects or numbers (which
  2665. indicate a column). The ruler will be displayed at the column
  2666. indicated by the number or the <code>column</code> property.
  2667. The <code>className</code> property can be used to assign a
  2668. custom style to a ruler. <a href="../demo/rulers.html">Demo
  2669. here</a>.</dd>
  2670. <dt id="addon_panel"><a href="../addon/display/panel.js"><code>display/panel.js</code></a></dt>
  2671. <dd>Defines an <code>addPanel</code> method for CodeMirror
  2672. instances, which places a DOM node above or below an editor, and
  2673. shrinks the editor to make room for the node. The method takes
  2674. as first argument as DOM node, and as second an optional options
  2675. object. The <code>Panel</code> object returned by this method
  2676. has a <code>clear</code> method that is used to remove the
  2677. panel, and a <code>changed</code> method that can be used to
  2678. notify the addon when the size of the panel's DOM node has
  2679. changed.<br/>
  2680. The method accepts the following options:
  2681. <dl>
  2682. <dt><code><strong>position</strong>: string</code></dt>
  2683. <dd>Controls the position of the newly added panel. The
  2684. following values are recognized:
  2685. <dl>
  2686. <dt><code><strong>top</strong> (default)</code></dt>
  2687. <dd>Adds the panel at the very top.</dd>
  2688. <dt><code><strong>after-top</strong></code></dt>
  2689. <dd>Adds the panel at the bottom of the top panels.</dd>
  2690. <dt><code><strong>bottom</strong></code></dt>
  2691. <dd>Adds the panel at the very bottom.</dd>
  2692. <dt><code><strong>before-bottom</strong></code></dt>
  2693. <dd>Adds the panel at the top of the bottom panels.</dd>
  2694. </dl>
  2695. </dd>
  2696. <dt><code><strong>before</strong>: Panel</code></dt>
  2697. <dd>The new panel will be added before the given panel.</dd>
  2698. <dt><code><strong>after</strong>: Panel</code></dt>
  2699. <dd>The new panel will be added after the given panel.</dd>
  2700. <dt><code><strong>replace</strong>: Panel</code></dt>
  2701. <dd>The new panel will replace the given panel.</dd>
  2702. <dt><code><strong>stable</strong>: bool</code></dt>
  2703. <dd>Whether to scroll the editor to keep the text's vertical
  2704. position stable, when adding a panel above it. Defaults to false.</dd>
  2705. </dl>
  2706. When using the <code>after</code>, <code>before</code> or <code>replace</code> options,
  2707. if the panel doesn't exists or has been removed,
  2708. the value of the <code>position</code> option will be used as a fallback.
  2709. <br>
  2710. A demo of the addon is available <a href="../demo/panel.html">here</a>.
  2711. </dd>
  2712. <dt id="addon_hardwrap"><a href="../addon/wrap/hardwrap.js"><code>wrap/hardwrap.js</code></a></dt>
  2713. <dd>Addon to perform hard line wrapping/breaking for paragraphs
  2714. of text. Adds these methods to editor instances:
  2715. <dl>
  2716. <dt><code><strong>wrapParagraph</strong>(?pos: {line, ch}, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  2717. <dd>Wraps the paragraph at the given position.
  2718. If <code>pos</code> is not given, it defaults to the cursor
  2719. position.</dd>
  2720. <dt><code><strong>wrapRange</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  2721. <dd>Wraps the given range as one big paragraph.</dd>
  2722. <dt><code><strong>wrapParagraphsInRange</strong>(from: {line, ch}, to: {line, ch}, ?options: object)</code></dt>
  2723. <dd>Wraps the paragraphs in (and overlapping with) the
  2724. given range individually.</dd>
  2725. </dl>
  2726. The following options are recognized:
  2727. <dl>
  2728. <dt><code><strong>paragraphStart</strong>, <strong>paragraphEnd</strong>: RegExp</code></dt>
  2729. <dd>Blank lines are always considered paragraph boundaries.
  2730. These options can be used to specify a pattern that causes
  2731. lines to be considered the start or end of a paragraph.</dd>
  2732. <dt><code><strong>column</strong>: number</code></dt>
  2733. <dd>The column to wrap at. Defaults to 80.</dd>
  2734. <dt><code><strong>wrapOn</strong>: RegExp</code></dt>
  2735. <dd>A regular expression that matches only those
  2736. two-character strings that allow wrapping. By default, the
  2737. addon wraps on whitespace and after dash characters.</dd>
  2738. <dt><code><strong>killTrailingSpace</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2739. <dd>Whether trailing space caused by wrapping should be
  2740. preserved, or deleted. Defaults to true.</dd>
  2741. </dl>
  2742. A demo of the addon is available <a href="../demo/hardwrap.html">here</a>.
  2743. </dd>
  2744. <dt id="addon_merge"><a href="../addon/merge/merge.js"><code>merge/merge.js</code></a></dt>
  2745. <dd>Implements an interface for merging changes, using either a
  2746. 2-way or a 3-way view. The <code>CodeMirror.MergeView</code>
  2747. constructor takes arguments similar to
  2748. the <a href="#CodeMirror"><code>CodeMirror</code></a>
  2749. constructor, first a node to append the interface to, and then
  2750. an options object. Options are passed through to the editors
  2751. inside the view. These extra options are recognized:
  2752. <dl>
  2753. <dt><code><strong>origLeft</strong></code> and <code><strong>origRight</strong>: string</code></dt>
  2754. <dd>If given these provide original versions of the
  2755. document, which will be shown to the left and right of the
  2756. editor in non-editable CodeMirror instances. The merge
  2757. interface will highlight changes between the editable
  2758. document and the original(s). To create a 2-way (as opposed
  2759. to 3-way) merge view, provide only one of them.</dd>
  2760. <dt><code><strong>revertButtons</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2761. <dd>Determines whether buttons that allow the user to revert
  2762. changes are shown. Defaults to true.</dd>
  2763. <dt><code><strong>revertChunk</strong>: fn(mv: MergeView, from: CodeMirror, fromStart: Pos, fromEnd: Pos, to: CodeMirror, toStart: Pos, toEnd: Pos)</code></dt>
  2764. <dd>Can be used to define custom behavior when the user
  2765. reverts a changed chunk.</dd>
  2766. <dt><code><strong>connect</strong>: string</code></dt>
  2767. <dd>Sets the style used to connect changed chunks of code.
  2768. By default, connectors are drawn. When this is set
  2769. to <code>"align"</code>, the smaller chunk is padded to
  2770. align with the bigger chunk instead.</dd>
  2771. <dt><code><strong>collapseIdentical</strong>: boolean|number</code></dt>
  2772. <dd>When true (default is false), stretches of unchanged
  2773. text will be collapsed. When a number is given, this
  2774. indicates the amount of lines to leave visible around such
  2775. stretches (which defaults to 2).</dd>
  2776. <dt><code><strong>allowEditingOriginals</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2777. <dd>Determines whether the original editor allows editing.
  2778. Defaults to false.</dd>
  2779. <dt><code><strong>showDifferences</strong>: boolean</code></dt>
  2780. <dd>When true (the default), changed pieces of text are
  2781. highlighted.</dd>
  2782. <dt><code><strong>chunkClassLocation</strong>: string|Array</code></dt>
  2783. <dd>By default the chunk highlights are added
  2784. using <a href="#addLineClass"><code>addLineClass</code></a>
  2785. with "background". Override this to customize it to be any
  2786. valid `where` parameter or an Array of valid `where`
  2787. parameters.</dd>
  2788. </dl>
  2789. The addon also defines commands <code>"goNextDiff"</code>
  2790. and <code>"goPrevDiff"</code> to quickly jump to the next
  2791. changed chunk. <a href="../demo/merge.html">Demo
  2792. here</a>.</dd>
  2793. <dt id="addon_tern"><a href="../addon/tern/tern.js"><code>tern/tern.js</code></a></dt>
  2794. <dd>Provides integration with
  2795. the <a href="http://ternjs.net">Tern</a> JavaScript analysis
  2796. engine, for completion, definition finding, and minor
  2797. refactoring help. See the <a href="../demo/tern.html">demo</a>
  2798. for a very simple integration. For more involved scenarios, see
  2799. the comments at the top of
  2800. the <a href="../addon/tern/tern.js">addon</a> and the
  2801. implementation of the
  2802. (multi-file) <a href="http://ternjs.net/doc/demo.html">demonstration
  2803. on the Tern website</a>.</dd>
  2804. </dl>
  2805. </section>
  2806. <section id=modeapi>
  2807. <h2>Writing CodeMirror Modes</h2>
  2808. <p>Modes typically consist of a single JavaScript file. This file
  2809. defines, in the simplest case, a lexer (tokenizer) for your
  2810. language—a function that takes a character stream as input,
  2811. advances it past a token, and returns a style for that token. More
  2812. advanced modes can also handle indentation for the language.</p>
  2813. <p>This section describes the low-level mode interface. Many modes
  2814. are written directly against this, since it offers a lot of
  2815. control, but for a quick mode definition, you might want to use
  2816. the <a href="../demo/simplemode.html">simple mode addon</a>.</p>
  2817. <p id="defineMode">The mode script should
  2818. call <code><strong>CodeMirror.defineMode</strong></code> to
  2819. register itself with CodeMirror. This function takes two
  2820. arguments. The first should be the name of the mode, for which you
  2821. should use a lowercase string, preferably one that is also the
  2822. name of the files that define the mode (i.e. <code>"xml"</code> is
  2823. defined in <code>xml.js</code>). The second argument should be a
  2824. function that, given a CodeMirror configuration object (the thing
  2825. passed to the <code>CodeMirror</code> function) and an optional
  2826. mode configuration object (as in
  2827. the <a href="#option_mode"><code>mode</code></a> option), returns
  2828. a mode object.</p>
  2829. <p>Typically, you should use this second argument
  2830. to <code>defineMode</code> as your module scope function (modes
  2831. should not leak anything into the global scope!), i.e. write your
  2832. whole mode inside this function.</p>
  2833. <p>The main responsibility of a mode script is <em>parsing</em>
  2834. the content of the editor. Depending on the language and the
  2835. amount of functionality desired, this can be done in really easy
  2836. or extremely complicated ways. Some parsers can be stateless,
  2837. meaning that they look at one element (<em>token</em>) of the code
  2838. at a time, with no memory of what came before. Most, however, will
  2839. need to remember something. This is done by using a <em>state
  2840. object</em>, which is an object that is always passed when
  2841. reading a token, and which can be mutated by the tokenizer.</p>
  2842. <p id="startState">Modes that use a state must define
  2843. a <code><strong>startState</strong></code> method on their mode
  2844. object. This is a function of no arguments that produces a state
  2845. object to be used at the start of a document.</p>
  2846. <p id="token">The most important part of a mode object is
  2847. its <code><strong>token</strong>(stream, state)</code> method. All
  2848. modes must define this method. It should read one token from the
  2849. stream it is given as an argument, optionally update its state,
  2850. and return a style string, or <code>null</code> for tokens that do
  2851. not have to be styled. For your styles, you are encouraged to use
  2852. the 'standard' names defined in the themes (without
  2853. the <code>cm-</code> prefix). If that fails, it is also possible
  2854. to come up with your own and write your own CSS theme file.<p>
  2855. <p id="token_style_line">A typical token string would
  2856. be <code>"variable"</code> or <code>"comment"</code>. Multiple
  2857. styles can be returned (separated by spaces), for
  2858. example <code>"string error"</code> for a thing that looks like a
  2859. string but is invalid somehow (say, missing its closing quote).
  2860. When a style is prefixed by <code>"line-"</code>
  2861. or <code>"line-background-"</code>, the style will be applied to
  2862. the whole line, analogous to what
  2863. the <a href="#addLineClass"><code>addLineClass</code></a> method
  2864. does—styling the <code>"text"</code> in the simple case, and
  2865. the <code>"background"</code> element
  2866. when <code>"line-background-"</code> is prefixed.</p>
  2867. <p id="StringStream">The stream object that's passed
  2868. to <code>token</code> encapsulates a line of code (tokens may
  2869. never span lines) and our current position in that line. It has
  2870. the following API:</p>
  2871. <dl>
  2872. <dt><code><strong>eol</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  2873. <dd>Returns true only if the stream is at the end of the
  2874. line.</dd>
  2875. <dt><code><strong>sol</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  2876. <dd>Returns true only if the stream is at the start of the
  2877. line.</dd>
  2878. <dt><code><strong>peek</strong>() → string</code></dt>
  2879. <dd>Returns the next character in the stream without advancing
  2880. it. Will return a <code>null</code> at the end of the
  2881. line.</dd>
  2882. <dt><code><strong>next</strong>() → string</code></dt>
  2883. <dd>Returns the next character in the stream and advances it.
  2884. Also returns <code>null</code> when no more characters are
  2885. available.</dd>
  2886. <dt><code><strong>eat</strong>(match: string|regexp|function(char: string) → boolean) → string</code></dt>
  2887. <dd><code>match</code> can be a character, a regular expression,
  2888. or a function that takes a character and returns a boolean. If
  2889. the next character in the stream 'matches' the given argument,
  2890. it is consumed and returned. Otherwise, <code>undefined</code>
  2891. is returned.</dd>
  2892. <dt><code><strong>eatWhile</strong>(match: string|regexp|function(char: string) → boolean) → boolean</code></dt>
  2893. <dd>Repeatedly calls <code>eat</code> with the given argument,
  2894. until it fails. Returns true if any characters were eaten.</dd>
  2895. <dt><code><strong>eatSpace</strong>() → boolean</code></dt>
  2896. <dd>Shortcut for <code>eatWhile</code> when matching
  2897. white-space.</dd>
  2898. <dt><code><strong>skipToEnd</strong>()</code></dt>
  2899. <dd>Moves the position to the end of the line.</dd>
  2900. <dt><code><strong>skipTo</strong>(str: string) → boolean</code></dt>
  2901. <dd>Skips to the start of the next occurrence of the given string, if
  2902. found on the current line (doesn't advance the stream if the
  2903. string does not occur on the line). Returns true if the
  2904. string was found.</dd>
  2905. <dt><code><strong>match</strong>(pattern: string, ?consume: boolean, ?caseFold: boolean) → boolean</code></dt>
  2906. <dt><code><strong>match</strong>(pattern: regexp, ?consume: boolean) → array&lt;string&gt;</code></dt>
  2907. <dd>Act like a
  2908. multi-character <code>eat</code>—if <code>consume</code> is true
  2909. or not given—or a look-ahead that doesn't update the stream
  2910. position—if it is false. <code>pattern</code> can be either a
  2911. string or a regular expression starting with <code>^</code>.
  2912. When it is a string, <code>caseFold</code> can be set to true to
  2913. make the match case-insensitive. When successfully matching a
  2914. regular expression, the returned value will be the array
  2915. returned by <code>match</code>, in case you need to extract
  2916. matched groups.</dd>
  2917. <dt><code><strong>backUp</strong>(n: integer)</code></dt>
  2918. <dd>Backs up the stream <code>n</code> characters. Backing it up
  2919. further than the start of the current token will cause things to
  2920. break, so be careful.</dd>
  2921. <dt><code><strong>column</strong>() → integer</code></dt>
  2922. <dd>Returns the column (taking into account tabs) at which the
  2923. current token starts.</dd>
  2924. <dt><code><strong>indentation</strong>() → integer</code></dt>
  2925. <dd>Tells you how far the current line has been indented, in
  2926. spaces. Corrects for tab characters.</dd>
  2927. <dt><code><strong>current</strong>() → string</code></dt>
  2928. <dd>Get the string between the start of the current token and
  2929. the current stream position.</dd>
  2930. <dt><code><strong>lookAhead</strong>(n: number) → ?string</code></dt>
  2931. <dd>Get the line <code>n</code> (&gt;0) lines after the current
  2932. one, in order to scan ahead across line boundaries. Note that
  2933. you want to do this carefully, since looking far ahead will make
  2934. mode state caching much less effective.</dd>
  2935. <dt id="baseToken"><code><strong>baseToken</strong>() → ?{type: ?string, size: number}</code></dt>
  2936. <dd>Modes added
  2937. through <a href="#addOverlay"><code>addOverlay</code></a>
  2938. (and <em>only</em> such modes) can use this method to inspect
  2939. the current token produced by the underlying mode.</dd>
  2940. </dl>
  2941. <p id="blankLine">By default, blank lines are simply skipped when
  2942. tokenizing a document. For languages that have significant blank
  2943. lines, you can define
  2944. a <code><strong>blankLine</strong>(state)</code> method on your
  2945. mode that will get called whenever a blank line is passed over, so
  2946. that it can update the parser state.</p>
  2947. <p id="copyState">Because state object are mutated, and CodeMirror
  2948. needs to keep valid versions of a state around so that it can
  2949. restart a parse at any line, copies must be made of state objects.
  2950. The default algorithm used is that a new state object is created,
  2951. which gets all the properties of the old object. Any properties
  2952. which hold arrays get a copy of these arrays (since arrays tend to
  2953. be used as mutable stacks). When this is not correct, for example
  2954. because a mode mutates non-array properties of its state object, a
  2955. mode object should define
  2956. a <code><strong>copyState</strong></code> method, which is given a
  2957. state and should return a safe copy of that state.</p>
  2958. <p id="indent">If you want your mode to provide smart indentation
  2959. (through the <a href="#indentLine"><code>indentLine</code></a>
  2960. method and the <code>indentAuto</code>
  2961. and <code>newlineAndIndent</code> commands, to which keys can be
  2962. <a href="#option_extraKeys">bound</a>), you must define
  2963. an <code><strong>indent</strong>(state, textAfter)</code> method
  2964. on your mode object.</p>
  2965. <p>The indentation method should inspect the given state object,
  2966. and optionally the <code>textAfter</code> string, which contains
  2967. the text on the line that is being indented, and return an
  2968. integer, the amount of spaces to indent. It should usually take
  2969. the <a href="#option_indentUnit"><code>indentUnit</code></a>
  2970. option into account. An indentation method may
  2971. return <code>CodeMirror.Pass</code> to indicate that it
  2972. could not come up with a precise indentation.</p>
  2973. <p id="mode_comment">To work well with
  2974. the <a href="#addon_comment">commenting addon</a>, a mode may
  2975. define <code><strong>lineComment</strong></code> (string that
  2976. starts a line
  2977. comment), <code><strong>blockCommentStart</strong></code>, <code><strong>blockCommentEnd</strong></code>
  2978. (strings that start and end block comments),
  2979. and <code>blockCommentLead</code> (a string to put at the start of
  2980. continued lines in a block comment). All of these are
  2981. optional.</p>
  2982. <p id="electricChars">Finally, a mode may define either
  2983. an <code>electricChars</code> or an <code>electricInput</code>
  2984. property, which are used to automatically reindent the line when
  2985. certain patterns are typed and
  2986. the <a href="#option_electricChars"><code>electricChars</code></a>
  2987. option is enabled. <code>electricChars</code> may be a string, and
  2988. will trigger a reindent whenever one of the characters in that
  2989. string are typed. Often, it is more appropriate to
  2990. use <code>electricInput</code>, which should hold a regular
  2991. expression, and will trigger indentation when the part of the
  2992. line <em>before</em> the cursor matches the expression. It should
  2993. usually end with a <code>$</code> character, so that it only
  2994. matches when the indentation-changing pattern was just typed, not when something was
  2995. typed after the pattern.</p>
  2996. <p>So, to summarize, a mode <em>must</em> provide
  2997. a <code>token</code> method, and it <em>may</em>
  2998. provide <code>startState</code>, <code>copyState</code>,
  2999. and <code>indent</code> methods. For an example of a trivial mode,
  3000. see the <a href="../mode/diff/diff.js">diff mode</a>, for a more
  3001. involved example, see the <a href="../mode/clike/clike.js">C-like
  3002. mode</a>.</p>
  3003. <p>Sometimes, it is useful for modes to <em>nest</em>—to have one
  3004. mode delegate work to another mode. An example of this kind of
  3005. mode is the <a href="../mode/htmlmixed/htmlmixed.js">mixed-mode HTML
  3006. mode</a>. To implement such nesting, it is usually necessary to
  3007. create mode objects and copy states yourself. To create a mode
  3008. object, there are <code>CodeMirror.getMode(options,
  3009. parserConfig)</code>, where the first argument is a configuration
  3010. object as passed to the mode constructor function, and the second
  3011. argument is a mode specification as in
  3012. the <a href="#option_mode"><code>mode</code></a> option. To copy a
  3013. state object, call <code>CodeMirror.copyState(mode, state)</code>,
  3014. where <code>mode</code> is the mode that created the given
  3015. state.</p>
  3016. <p id="innerMode">In a nested mode, it is recommended to add an
  3017. extra method, <code><strong>innerMode</strong></code> which, given
  3018. a state object, returns a <code>{state, mode}</code> object with
  3019. the inner mode and its state for the current position. These are
  3020. used by utility scripts such as the <a href="#addon_closetag">tag
  3021. closer</a> to get context information. Use
  3022. the <code>CodeMirror.innerMode</code> helper function to, starting
  3023. from a mode and a state, recursively walk down to the innermost
  3024. mode and state.</p>
  3025. <p>To make indentation work properly in a nested parser, it is
  3026. advisable to give the <code>startState</code> method of modes that
  3027. are intended to be nested an optional argument that provides the
  3028. base indentation for the block of code. The JavaScript and CSS
  3029. parser do this, for example, to allow JavaScript and CSS code
  3030. inside the mixed-mode HTML mode to be properly indented.</p>
  3031. <p id="defineMIME">It is possible, and encouraged, to associate
  3032. your mode, or a certain configuration of your mode, with
  3033. a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME">MIME</a> type. For
  3034. example, the JavaScript mode associates itself
  3035. with <code>text/javascript</code>, and its JSON variant
  3036. with <code>application/json</code>. To do this,
  3037. call <code><strong>CodeMirror.defineMIME</strong>(mime,
  3038. modeSpec)</code>, where <code>modeSpec</code> can be a string or
  3039. object specifying a mode, as in
  3040. the <a href="#option_mode"><code>mode</code></a> option.</p>
  3041. <p>If a mode specification wants to add some properties to the
  3042. resulting mode object, typically for use
  3043. with <a href="#getHelpers"><code>getHelpers</code></a>, it may
  3044. contain a <code>modeProps</code> property, which holds an object.
  3045. This object's properties will be copied to the actual mode
  3046. object.</p>
  3047. <p id="extendMode">Sometimes, it is useful to add or override mode
  3048. object properties from external code.
  3049. The <code><strong>CodeMirror.extendMode</strong></code> function
  3050. can be used to add properties to mode objects produced for a
  3051. specific mode. Its first argument is the name of the mode, its
  3052. second an object that specifies the properties that should be
  3053. added. This is mostly useful to add utilities that can later be
  3054. looked up through <a href="#getMode"><code>getMode</code></a>.</p>
  3055. </section>
  3056. <section id="vimapi">
  3057. <h2>VIM Mode API</h2>
  3058. <p>CodeMirror has a robust VIM mode that attempts to faithfully
  3059. emulate VIM's most useful features. It can be enabled by
  3060. including <a href="../keymap/vim.js"><code>keymap/vim.js</code>
  3061. </a> and setting the <code>keyMap</code> option to
  3062. <code>"vim"</code>.</p>
  3063. <h3 id="vimapi_configuration">Configuration</h3>
  3064. <p>VIM mode accepts configuration options for customizing
  3065. behavior at run time. These methods can be called at any time
  3066. and will affect all existing CodeMirror instances unless
  3067. specified otherwise. The methods are exposed on the
  3068. <code><strong>CodeMirror.Vim</strong></code> object.</p>
  3069. <dl>
  3070. <dt id="vimapi_setOption"><code><strong>setOption(name: string, value: any, ?cm: CodeMirror, ?cfg: object)</strong></code></dt>
  3071. <dd>Sets the value of a VIM option. <code>name</code> should
  3072. be the name of an option. If <code>cfg.scope</code> is not set
  3073. and <code>cm</code> is provided, then sets the global and
  3074. instance values of the option. Otherwise, sets either the
  3075. global or instance value of the option depending on whether
  3076. <code>cfg.scope</code> is <code>global</code> or
  3077. <code>local</code>.</dd>
  3078. <dt id="vimapi_getOption"><code><strong>getOption(name: string, ?cm: CodeMirror: ?cfg: object)</strong></code></dt>
  3079. <dd>Gets the current value of a VIM option. If
  3080. <code>cfg.scope</code> is not set and <code>cm</code> is
  3081. provided, then gets the instance value of the option, falling
  3082. back to the global value if not set. If <code>cfg.scope</code> is provided, then gets the <code>global</code> or
  3083. <code>local</code> value without checking the other.</dd>
  3084. <dt id="vimapi_map"><code><strong>map(lhs: string, rhs: string, ?context: string)</strong></code></dt>
  3085. <dd>Maps a key sequence to another key sequence. Implements
  3086. VIM's <code>:map</code> command. To map ; to : in VIM would be
  3087. <code><strong>:map ; :</strong></code>. That would translate to
  3088. <code><strong>CodeMirror.Vim.map(';', ':');</strong></code>.
  3089. The <code>context</code> can be <code>normal</code>,
  3090. <code>visual</code>, or <code>insert</code>, which correspond
  3091. to <code>:nmap</code>, <code>:vmap</code>, and
  3092. <code>:imap</code>
  3093. respectively.</dd>
  3094. <dt id="vimapi_mapCommand"><code><strong>mapCommand(keys: string, type: string, name: string, ?args: object, ?extra: object)</strong></code></dt>
  3095. <dd>Maps a key sequence to a <code>motion</code>,
  3096. <code>operator</code>, or <code>action</code> type command.
  3097. The args object is passed through to the command when it is
  3098. invoked by the provided key sequence.
  3099. <code>extras.context</code> can be <code>normal</code>,
  3100. <code>visual</code>, or <code>insert</code>, to map the key
  3101. sequence only in the corresponding mode.
  3102. <code>extras.isEdit</code> is applicable only to actions,
  3103. determining whether it is recorded for replay for the
  3104. <code>.</code> single-repeat command.
  3105. </dl>
  3106. <h3 id="vimapi_extending">Extending VIM</h3>
  3107. <p>CodeMirror's VIM mode implements a large subset of VIM's core
  3108. editing functionality. But since there's always more to be
  3109. desired, there is a set of APIs for extending VIM's
  3110. functionality. As with the configuration API, the methods are
  3111. exposed on <code><strong>CodeMirror.Vim</strong></code> and may
  3112. be called at any time.</p>
  3113. <dl>
  3114. <dt id="vimapi_defineOption"><code><strong>defineOption(name: string, default: any, type: string, ?aliases: array&lt;string&gt;, ?callback: function (?value: any, ?cm: CodeMirror) → ?any)</strong></code></dt>
  3115. <dd>Defines a VIM style option and makes it available to the
  3116. <code>:set</code> command. Type can be <code>boolean</code> or
  3117. <code>string</code>, used for validation and by
  3118. <code>:set</code> to determine which syntax to accept. If a
  3119. <code>callback</code> is passed in, VIM does not store the value of the
  3120. option itself, but instead uses the callback as a setter/getter. If the
  3121. first argument to the callback is <code>undefined</code>, then the
  3122. callback should return the value of the option. Otherwise, it should set
  3123. instead. Since VIM options have global and instance values, whether a
  3124. <code>CodeMirror</code> instance is passed in denotes whether the global
  3125. or local value should be used. Consequently, it's possible for the
  3126. callback to be called twice for a single <code>setOption</code> or
  3127. <code>getOption</code> call. Note that right now, VIM does not support
  3128. defining buffer-local options that do not have global values. If an
  3129. option should not have a global value, either always ignore the
  3130. <code>cm</code> parameter in the callback, or always pass in a
  3131. <code>cfg.scope</code> to <code>setOption</code> and
  3132. <code>getOption</code>.</dd>
  3133. <dt id="vimapi_defineMotion"><code><strong>defineMotion(name: string, fn: function(cm: CodeMirror, head: {line, ch}, ?motionArgs: object}) → {line, ch})</strong></code></dt>
  3134. <dd>Defines a motion command for VIM. The motion should return
  3135. the desired result position of the cursor. <code>head</code>
  3136. is the current position of the cursor. It can differ from
  3137. <code>cm.getCursor('head')</code> if VIM is in visual mode.
  3138. <code>motionArgs</code> is the object passed into
  3139. <strong><code>mapCommand()</code></strong>.</dd>
  3140. <dt id="vimapi_defineOperator"><strong><code>defineOperator(name: string, fn: function(cm: CodeMirror, ?operatorArgs: object, ranges: array&lt;{anchor, head}&gt;) → ?{line, ch})</code></strong></dt>
  3141. <dd>Defines an operator command, similar to <strong><code>
  3142. defineMotion</code></strong>. <code>ranges</code> is the range
  3143. of text the operator should operate on. If the cursor should
  3144. be set to a certain position after the operation finishes, it
  3145. can return a cursor object.</dd>
  3146. <dt id="vimapi_defineActon"><strong><code>defineAction(name: string, fn: function(cm: CodeMirror, ?actionArgs: object))</code></strong></dt>
  3147. <dd>Defines an action command, similar to
  3148. <strong><code>defineMotion</code></strong>. Action commands
  3149. can have arbitrary behavior, making them more flexible than
  3150. motions and operators, at the loss of orthogonality.</dd>
  3151. <dt id="vimapi_defineEx"><strong><code>defineEx(name: string, ?prefix: string, fn: function(cm: CodeMirror, ?params: object))</code></strong></dt>
  3152. <dd>Defines an Ex command, and maps it to <code>:name</code>.
  3153. If a prefix is provided, it, and any prefixed substring of the
  3154. <code>name</code> beginning with the <code>prefix</code> can
  3155. be used to invoke the command. If the <code>prefix</code> is
  3156. falsy, then <code>name</code> is used as the prefix. <code>
  3157. params.argString</code> contains the part of the prompted
  3158. string after the command name. <code>params.args</code> is
  3159. <code>params.argString</code> split by whitespace. If the
  3160. command was prefixed with a
  3161. <code><strong><a href="http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/cmdline.html#cmdline-ranges">line range</a></strong></code>,
  3162. <code>params.line</code> and <code>params.lineEnd</code> will
  3163. be set.
  3164. </dl>
  3165. </section>
  3166. </article>
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