editrrr

Editrrr

Pimping textareas with editor features.

Editrrr was heavily inspired by Behave.js, so parts of this readme will be similar as well.

What?

Editrrr is a lightweight library for adding IDE style behaviors to plain text areas, making it much more enjoyable to write code in.

• Supports IE10+, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera
• No Dependencies
• Hard and Soft Tabs
• Auto Open/Close Paranthesis, Brackets, Braces, Double and Single Quotes
• Auto delete a paired character
• Overwrite a paired character
• Multi-line Indentation/Unindentation
• Automatic Indentation
• Move lines up/down
• Duplicate lines

Install

npm install editrrr

Example Setup

Javascript

import Editrrr from 'editrrr';

// create an instance (with the defaults)
const editrrr = new Editrrr({
  textarea: null,
  replaceTab: true,
  softTabs: true,
  tabSize: 2,
  autoOpen: true,
  overwrite: true,
  autoStrip: true,
  autoIndent: true,
  continueList: true,
  moveLine: true,
  duplicateLine: true,
});

• textarea: Textarea element to apply the behaviors to
• replaceTab: If set to true, replaceTab does three different things:
  • Pressing the tab key will insert a tab instead of cycle input focus.
  • If you are holding shift, and there is a full tab before your cursor (whatever your tab may be), it will unindent.
  • If you have a range selected, both of the above rules will apply to all lines selected (multi-line indent/unindent)
• softTabs: If set to true, spaces will be used instead of a tab character
• tabSize: If softTabs is set to true, the number of spaces used is defined here. If set to false, the CSS property tab-size will be used to define hard tab sizes.
• autoOpen: If any of the following characters are typed, their counterparts are automatically added:
  • ( adds )
  • { adds }
  • [ adds ]
  • " adds "
  • ' adds '
• overwrite: If you type a closing character directly before an identical character, it will overwrite it instead of adding it. Best used with autoOpen set to true
• autoStrip: If set to true, and your cursor is between two paired characters, pressing backspace will delete both instead of just the first
• autoIndent: If set to true, automatic indentation of your code will be attempted. Best used with autoOpen set to true
• continueList: If set to true, Markdown lists (and GFM style task lists) are continued when pressing enter
• moveLine: If set to true, lines can be moved up and down using alt+up/down
• duplicateLine: If set to true, lines can be duplicated using shift+alt+up/down

Methods

editrrr.getLineNr(pos); // get the line number (0 based)
editrrr.getLine(pos); // get the line
editrrr.getLineCursor(pos); // get the cursor position on the line
editrrr.getLines(); // get all lines
editrrr.getCursor(); // get the cursor position
editrrr.setCursor(start, end); // set the cursor position
editrrr.getSelection(); // get the selection
editrrr.levelsDeep(pos); // get the levels of indetation
editrrr.addEvent(name, fn); // add event listener
editrrr.removeEvent(name, fn); // remove event listener
editrrr.focus(); // focus the textarea
editrrr.blur(); // blur the textarea
editrrr.value; // get the value
editrrr.value = 'add some text'; // set the value
editrrr.init(); // init function
editrrr.destroy(); // remove all behaviors

Static methods

Editrrr.addHook(['name'], (editrrr, e) => {});
Editrrr.getHook('name');

Hooks

Every hook function will receive 2 arguments:

• editrrr: the Editrrr instance
• e: the event data

init:before

Called before initializing Behave

init:after

Called after initializing Behave

enter:before

Called before inserting the text triggered by the enter key

enter:after

Called after inserting the text triggered by the enter key

delete:before

Called before deleting the text triggered by the delete key

delete:after

Called after deleting the text triggered by the delete key

tab:before

Called before inserting the text triggered by the tab key

tab:after

Called after inserting the text triggered by the tab key

keyup

Called before modifying the text triggered by the keyup event

keydown

Called after modifying the text triggered by the keydown event

input

Called after modifying the text triggered by the input event

openChar:before

Called before modifying the text triggered by an opening character

openChar:after

Called after modifying the text triggered by an opening character

closeChar:before

Called before modifying the text triggered by an closing character

closeChar:after

Called after modifying the text triggered by an closing character

destroy:before

Called before removing all the behavoirs

destroy:after

Called after removing all the behaviors

License

MIT License