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Re: We are rewriting CodeMirror

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louisstow wrote: post #60
marijn wrote: post #2

Oh hi, I'm Marijn, one of the maintainers. It doesn't look like this submission is going anywhere, but I'll keep an eye on the comments and respond to questions.

Hi Marijn. Big fan of ProseMirror. Would you look at building CodeMirror on top of (or at least sharing code with) ProseMirror so both projects can benefit from the effort?

There's a lot of architectural influence on the new CodeMirror from our ProseMirror work, but the actual systems are different enough that code sharing didn't really work (or, at least, would add enough levels of extra indirection and complexity to the reused code that it's not worth it—code size is a significant cost in JS components)

Re: We are rewriting CodeMirror

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Post by marijn »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #48
marijn wrote: post #2

Oh hi, I'm Marijn, one of the maintainers. It doesn't look like this submission is going anywhere, but I'll keep an eye on the comments and respond to questions.

Hi Marjin, I've been extremely impressed working with Codemirror. The event API is really easy to work with and I love the ease of switching syntax modes and color schemes. I'm building a product around CodeMirror and as a vimmer, I intend to carry Vim mode with me. Will CodeMirror6 implement vim mode in a similar fashion? I'll send you some coin either way, thanks again for developing such a great project!

> Will CodeMirror6 implement vim mode in a similar fashion?

This hasn't been decided yet—I'm aware how much people appreciate the vim bindings, but they are _huge_ (as big as the current core) and written by someone else. I'll probably take a stab at porting them when the new API is stable, and give up when it turns out to be too messy. On the bright side, they have a lot of tests, which helps with making sure I don't break them. But they _are_ still looking for a new maintainer, and even if I do port them, I'm not taking over maintenance.

Re: We are rewriting CodeMirror

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Post by marijn »

simplify wrote: post #46
marijn wrote: post #2

Oh hi, I'm Marijn, one of the maintainers. It doesn't look like this submission is going anywhere, but I'll keep an eye on the comments and respond to questions.

Are you planning to make it easy to add autocomplete support for languages like TypeScript?

It should not be hard to do this as a plugin, but the core maintainers are unlikely to work on it.

Re: We are rewriting CodeMirror

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Post by tluyben2 »

marijn wrote: post #27
tokyodude wrote: post #18

I have to ask what is probably a dumb question. Why? I used CodeMirror on three projects. It was great. Now I use Monaco aka Visual Studio Code. What would CodeMirror offer ? With Monaco I get all the lastest feature of VSCode . Current versions of Monaco include Intellisense etc.. I'm honestly curious both what CodeMirror will offer and why even try to compete. Though I'm guessing the answer to the first question an…

CodeMirror aims to be slimmer, and less of a cut-off piece of vs code. I also think our API is more well designed and expressive. And, as Adrian mentioned below, though he got downvoted, CodeMirror works on phones

The fact that it works on mobile is the biggest advantage imho. We use it for that reason.

Re: We are rewriting CodeMirror

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Post by amelius »

louisstow wrote: post #60
marijn wrote: post #2

Oh hi, I'm Marijn, one of the maintainers. It doesn't look like this submission is going anywhere, but I'll keep an eye on the comments and respond to questions.

Hi Marijn. Big fan of ProseMirror. Would you look at building CodeMirror on top of (or at least sharing code with) ProseMirror so both projects can benefit from the effort?

This makes me wonder. What would happen if you'd embed a piece of code inside a text document? Would you need to embed a CodeMirror instance inside a ProseMirror instance?

Re: We are rewriting CodeMirror

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Post by short »

marijn wrote: post #4
tobr wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would be interested in a short overview of contentEditable in 2018. Until very recently the consesus was that it's completely broken, but I understand from the design document[1] that it's good enough for you to build on now? Does it “just work” or is it only a slightly smaller mess than before? [1] https://codemirror.net/6/design.html

It's underspecified and very hard to implement (and hence, not implemented all that well), but if you know the pitfalls (only some DOM/style structures are well supported, cursors vanish in some circumstances, etc) and avoid them, and implement non-trivial editing commands yourself (because you can't really rely on the browser to get them right), contentEditable is a functional way to represent editable content in th…

Interesting! I actually wrote https://github.com/SjonHortensius/LRTEditor to replace CM, but the many subtle browser bugs eventually forced me to abandon it. Do you expect to use shims and possibly let browser-vendors fix bugs/inconsistencies you find?
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