[orion-dev] Fw: [flux-dev] Orion plugins questions

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Forwarding this question from Flux project.
Silenio or Bogdan do you have any thoughts on this. Is there a way for
a plugin to post incoming changes back into the editor model?

John

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From:      
 Alex Boyko <aboyko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 flux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,

Date:      
 05/29/2014 05:59 PM
Subject:    
   [flux-dev] Orion
plugins questions
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Hi all,

I'm trying to create an editor plugin for
Orion that would allow live (collaborative) editing of a file in Orion.
For example if multiple people changing the same file resource I'd like
to see live changes in my editor. In other words I'd like to see changes
in my editor not after someone saves the resource, but as someone types
characters. Suppose i have a messaging server which receives and broadcasts
changes to all clients editing the same resource.
Looks like i can create a plugin for Orion editor to transmit changes to
the messaging server using "orion.edit.model" extension with
onModelChanging event.
How can I sync back changes from others coming from the messaging server
back to my Orion editor? Is this possible with a plugin?

Orion extension plugin that hooks to “orion.edit.model”
onModelChanging event only has info about the event ni the editor: text
added, number of chars added, number of lines added and same for chars
removed. At best, some extensions get editor context object that can give
a reference to the contents of the editor via a deferred. Is it possible
to gather some additional information not available within the event such
as current user, file opened in the editor (file path)? If it’s not available
within the ModelChanging event perhaps it might be extracted from somewhere
else?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Alex_______________________________________________
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