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- <li><a href="#multisel">Multiple selections</a>
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- <h2 id=upgrade>Upgrading to version 4</h2>
- <p>CodeMirror 4's interface is <em>very</em> close version 3, but it
- does fix a few awkward details in a backwards-incompatible ways. At
- least skim the text below before upgrading.</p>
- <section id=multisel><h2>Multiple selections</h2>
- <p>The main new feature in version 4 is multiple selections. The
- single-selection variants of methods are still there, but now
- typically act only on the <em>primary</em> selection (usually the last
- one added).</p>
- <p>The exception to this
- is <a href="manual.html#getSelection"><strong><code>getSelection</code></strong></a>,
- which will now return the content of <em>all</em> selections
- (separated by newlines, or whatever <code>lineSep</code> parameter you passed
- it).</p>
- </section>
- <section id=beforeSelectionChange><h2>The beforeSelectionChange event</h2>
- <p>This event still exists, but the object it is passed has
- a <a href="manual.html#event_beforeSelectionChange">completely new
- interface</a>, because such changes now concern multiple
- selections.</p>
- </section>
- <section id=replaceSelection><h2>replaceSelection's collapsing behavior</h2>
- <p>By
- default, <a href="manual.html#replaceSelection"><code>replaceSelection</code></a>
- would leave the newly inserted text selected. This is only rarely what
- you want, and also (slightly) more expensive in the new model, so the
- default was changed to <code>"end"</code>, meaning the old behavior
- must be explicitly specified by passing a second argument
- of <code>"around"</code>.</p>
- </section>
- <section id=changeEvent><h2>change event data</h2>
- <p>Rather than forcing client code to follow <code>next</code>
- pointers from one change object to the next, the library will now
- simply fire
- multiple <a href="manual.html#event_change"><code>"change"</code></a>
- events. Existing code will probably continue to work unmodified.</p>
- </section>
- <section id=showIfHidden><h2>showIfHidden option to line widgets</h2>
- <p>This option, which conceptually caused line widgets to be visible
- even if their line was hidden, was never really well-defined, and was
- buggy from the start. It would be a rather expensive feature, both in
- code complexity and run-time performance, to implement properly. It
- has been dropped entirely in 4.0.</p>
- </section>
- <section id=module><h2>Module loaders</h2>
- <p>All modules in the CodeMirror distribution are now wrapped in a
- shim function to make them compatible with both AMD
- (<a href="http://requirejs.org">requirejs</a>) and CommonJS (as used
- by <a href="http://nodejs.org/">node</a>
- and <a href="http://browserify.org/">browserify</a>) module loaders.
- When neither of these is present, they fall back to simply using the
- global <code>CodeMirror</code> variable.</p>
- <p>If you have a module loader present in your environment, CodeMirror
- will attempt to use it, and you might need to change the way you load
- CodeMirror modules.</p>
- </section>
- <section id=shareddata><h2>Mutating shared data structures</h2>
- <p>Data structures produced by the library should not be mutated
- unless explicitly allowed, in general. This is slightly more strict in
- 4.0 than it was in earlier versions, which copied the position objects
- returned by <a href="manual.html#getCursor"><code>getCursor</code></a>
- for nebulous, historic reasons. In 4.0, mutating these
- objects <em>will</em> corrupt your editor's selection.</p>
- </section>
- <section id=deprecated><h2>Deprecated interfaces dropped</h2>
- <p>A few properties and methods that have been deprecated for a while
- are now gone. Most notably, the <code>onKeyEvent</code>
- and <code>onDragEvent</code> options (use the
- corresponding <a href="manual.html#event_dom">events</a> instead).</p>
- <p>Two silly methods, which were mostly there to stay close to the 0.x
- API, <code>setLine</code> and <code>removeLine</code> are now gone.
- Use the more
- flexible <a href="manual.html#replaceRange"><code>replaceRange</code></a>
- method instead.</p>
- <p>The long names for folding and completing functions
- (<code>CodeMirror.braceRangeFinder</code>, <code>CodeMirror.javascriptHint</code>,
- etc) are also gone
- (use <code>CodeMirror.fold.brace</code>, <code>CodeMirror.hint.javascript</code>).</p>
- <p>The <code>className</code> property in the return value
- of <a href="manual.html#getTokenAt"><code>getTokenAt</code></a>, which
- has been superseded by the <code>type</code> property, is also no
- longer present.</p>
- </section>
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