Add flag to Disable Worker

meriturva commented 7 years ago

monaco-editor npm version: 0.8.1 Browser: Chrome OS: Windows 10

We use monaco editor has viewer of big files and it works like a charm! I just would like to know if it is possible to disable web worker in that case (readonly = true). I think it is unused when editor is just a text viewer.

So thanks.

alexdima commented 7 years ago

The editor, depending on the language for the model, can end up spawning one or two web workers. For any file (including plain/text), the web worker is dynamically created when:

opening a file, for computing links (i.e. http, https, etc.)
typing in a file, for computing word completions
when opening the diff editor, for computing the diff

I agree, we should have an option for turning link detection off, in which case, for a read only editor that shows a plaintext file there will be no web worker spawned.

We end up spawning two web workers when using a rich language e.g. javascript/typescript/html/etc. where extra rich computation needs to be done when e.g. hovering. That is computed on a language specific web worker.