Can I use with editing disabled ?

[danielo515]

Hello,

Thanks for this gread widget. I want to use it without editing capabilities, this means just syntax highlight and scrolling. I want to control the text content programmatically. I'll be adding content to a file, I don't know if hot reload of a file is supported or If I have to feed editor-widget myself.

Thanks in advance.

[dbkaplun]

@danielo515,

You can disable editing by calling editor.readOnly(true) on an editor instance.

Regarding hot reloading, editor-widget will hot reload an open file, assuming text-buffer supports this feature, which may not be the case.

Hope that helps!

[danielo515]

Hello @dbkaplun , thanks for your prompt response. Exactly what I needed. Thank you very much. Assuming it is not able to hot-reload a file, how could I add new content to the editor window ? Just append it at the end I mean.

Regards

[danielo515]

I just tried and on my computer the file is hot reloaded, very cool. I think it works as long as the file descriptor opened and then closed.

Now I have to figure out how to accept text input on blessed, which is getting tricky

[danielo515]

Stupid me, I can just use your editor for both tasks. However, I have a couple of doubts about it:

• Is there any place where I can check the styling options ? I want to get rid of focusability, click, line rule etc.
• Can I re-write the content of the editor as long as it does not open any file ? Checking the codebase I think there is a method for getting the editor code, but I'm not sure if I can set it.

Many thanks for your support, and of course for this awesome tool

[dbkaplun]

• Here are the styling options. These are the defaults which are loaded via dominictarr/rc in the codebase.
• You can update the contents of the editor by using the methods on editor.textBuf. I think there is an editor.textBuf.setText() which will replace the entire buffer. The widget will automatically watch and render changes.