Editor[edit]

Creates a new Editor object.

Emitted once the editor has been blurred.

Emitted whenever the document is changed.

Emitted when an annotation changes.

Emitted when a back marker changes.

Emitted when a breakpoint changes.

Emitted when the code folds change.

Emitted when a front marker changes.

Emitted when the mode changes.

Emitted when the wrap limit changes.

Emitted when the wrap mode changes.

Emitted when the cursor changes.

Emitted once the editor comes into focus.

Emitted when a selection has changed.

Returns an object indicating the currently selected rows. The object looks like this:

{ first: range.start.row, last: range.end.row }

Returns the number of currently visibile rows.

Executes a specific function, which can be anything that manipulates selected lines, such as copying them, duplicating them, or shifting them.

Adds the selection and cursor.

Outdents the current line.

Blurs the current textInput.

Attempts to center the current selection on the screen.

Empties the selection (by de-selecting it). This function also emits the 'changeSelection' event.

Copies all the selected lines down one row.

Copies all the selected lines up one row.

Cleans up the entire editor.

Removes all the selections except the last added one.

Attempts to find needle within the document. For more information on options, see Search.

Finds and selects all the occurences of needle.

Performs another search for needle in the document. For more information on options, see Search.

Performs a search for needle backwards. For more information on options, see Search.

Brings the current textInput into focus.

Executes a command for each selection range.

Returns true if the behaviors are currently enabled. "Behaviors" in this case is the auto-pairing of special characters, like quotation marks, parenthesis, or brackets.

Returns the string of text currently highlighted.

Gets the current position of the cursor.

Returns the screen position of the cursor.

Returns the current mouse drag delay.

Returns the index of the first visible row.

Returns true if current lines are always highlighted.

Returns true if currently highlighted words are to be highlighted.

Returns the keyboard handler.

Returns an object containing all the search options. For more information on options, see Search.

Returns the index of the last visible row.

Returns true if overwrites are enabled; false otherwise.

Returns the column number of where the print margin is.

Returns true if the editor is set to read-only mode.

Returns the value indicating how fast the mouse scroll speed is.

Returns the currently highlighted selection.

Returns the Range for the selected text.

Returns the current selection style.

Returns the current session being used.

Returns true if the fold widgets are shown.

Returns true if invisible characters are being shown.

Returns true if the print margin is being shown.

Returns the path of the current theme.

Returns the current session's content.

Moves the cursor to the specified line number, and also into the indiciated column.

Shifts the document to wherever "page down" is, as well as moving the cursor position.

Shifts the document to wherever "page up" is, as well as moving the cursor position.

Indents the current line.

Inserts text into wherever the cursor is pointing.

Returns true if the current textInput is in focus.

Indicates if the entire row is currently visible on the screen.

Indicates if the row is currently visible on the screen.

Moves the cursor's row and column to the next matching bracket.

Moves the cursor to the specified row and column. Note that this does not de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor to the position indicated by pos.row and pos.column.

Shifts all the selected lines down one row.

Shifts all the selected lines up one row.

Moves a range of text from the given range to the given position. toPosition is an object that looks like this:

{ row: newRowLocation, column: newColumnLocation }

Moves the cursor down in the document the specified number of times. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor to the end of the current file. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor to the start of the current file. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor left in the document the specified number of times. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor to the end of the current line. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor to the start of the current line. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor right in the document the specified number of times. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor to the specified row and column. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor up in the document the specified number of times. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor to the word immediately to the left of the current position. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Moves the cursor to the word immediately to the right of the current position. Note that this does de-select the current selection.

Called whenever a text "copy" happens.

called whenever a text "cut" happens.

called whenever a text "paste" happens.

Perform a redo operation on the document, reimplementing the last change.

Removes words of text from the editor. A "word" is defined as a string of characters bookended by whitespace.

Removes all the lines in the current selection

Removes the selection marker.

Removes all the words to the right of the current selection, until the end of the line.

Removes all the words to the left of the current selection, until the start of the line.

Removes the word directly to the left of the current selection.

Removes the word directly to the right of the current selection.

Replaces the first occurance of options.needle with the value in replacement.

Replaces all occurances of options.needle with the value in replacement.

Triggers a resize of the editor.

Scrolls the document to wherever "page down" is, without changing the cursor position.

Scrolls the document to wherever "page up" is, without changing the cursor position.

TODO scrolls a to line, if center == true, puts line in middle of screen or attempts to)

Moves the editor to the specified row.

Selects all the text in editor.

Finds the next occurence of text in an active selection and adds it to the selections.

Adds a cursor above or below the active cursor.

Selects the text from the current position of the document until where a "page down" finishes.

Selects the text from the current position of the document until where a "page up" finishes.

Specifies whether to use behaviors or not. "Behaviors" in this case is the auto-pairing of special characters, like quotation marks, parenthesis, or brackets.

Sets the delay (in milliseconds) of the mouse drag.

Set a new font size (in pixels) for the editor text.

Determines whether or not the current line should be highlighted.

Determines if the currently selected word should be highlighted.

Sets a new keyboard handler.

Pass in true to enable overwrites in your session, or false to disable. If overwrites is enabled, any text you enter will type over any text after it. If the value of overwrite changes, this function also emites the changeOverwrite event.

Sets the column defining where the print margin should be.

If readOnly is true, then the editor is set to read-only mode, and none of the content can change.

Sets how fast the mouse scrolling should do.

Indicates how selections should occur. By default, selections are set to "line". This function also emits the 'changeSelectionStyle' event.

Sets a new editsession to use. This method also emits the 'changeSession' event.

Indicates whether the fold widgets are shown or not.

If showInvisibiles is set to true, invisible characters—like spaces or new lines—are show in the editor.

If showPrintMargin is set to true, the print margin is shown in the editor.

Adds a new class, style, to the editor.

Sets a new theme for the editor. theme should exist, and be a directory path, like ace/theme/textmate.

Sets the current document to val.

Splits the line at the current selection (by inserting an '\n').

Given the currently selected range, this function either comments all lines or uncomments all lines (depending on whether it's commented or not).

Sets the value of overwrite to the opposite of whatever it currently is.

Converts the current selection entirely into lowercase.

Converts the current selection entirely into uppercase.

Transposes current line.

Transposes the selected ranges.

Perform an undo operation on the document, reverting the last change. Returns the range of the undo.

Removes the class style from the editor.

Updates the cursor and marker layers.