How to programmatically change modes?

[replit]

How to programmatically change modes?

[sergeichestakov]

Thanks @jsjoeio! Just published an update to the NPM package with the above commit included. Feel free to upgrade to v0.19.0-beta.8 and let us know if something's not working!

[jsjoeio]

Will do - thank you @sergeichestakov!

[nightwing]

You are right. cm property exists on the js object, and in typescript can be used with a hack like (view as any).cm.

I am not sure what can we do to extend the EditorView in a way that would not break type system.

Maybe we should export getCm(view: EditorView): CodeMirror|null function similar to https://codemirror.net/6/docs/ref/#search.getSearchQuery

[jsjoeio]

Hooray! That worked. Thank you. I like the idea of having a hook called getCm where you pass in an EditorView.

That sounds nice.

Thank you very much for the two solutions and the fast reply.

[nightwing]

fixed in 1ad7453

[nightwing]

There is no cm6 style api, but you can use the old cm5 api

import {Vim} from "@replit/codemirror-vim"

var view = new EditorView({...})
Vim.exitInsertMode(view.cm)

or

Vim.handleKey(_view.cm, "<Esc>")

[jsjoeio]

Hmm...I must be missing something. TypeScript says that .cm does not exist on view. What am I doing wrong?

https://codesandbox.io/s/cm6-vim-test-mq5m9?file=/src/index.ts

[jsjoeio]

@nightwing when will you publish a new version with these changes? (may I suggest this)