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<!doctype html>
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<title>CodeMirror: Version 4 upgrade guide</title>
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<meta charset="utf-8"/>
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<link rel=stylesheet href="docs.css">
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<script src="activebookmark.js"></script>
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<div id=nav>
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<a href="http://codemirror.net"><img id=logo src="logo.png"></a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../index.html">Home</a>
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<li><a href="manual.html">Manual</a>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/marijnh/codemirror">Code</a>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li><a class=active href="#upgrade">Upgrade guide</a>
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<li><a href="#multisel">Multiple selections</a>
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<li><a href="#beforeSelectionChange">The beforeSelectionChange event</a>
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<li><a href="#replaceSelection">replaceSelection and collapsing</a>
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<li><a href="#changeEvent">change event data</a>
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<li><a href="#showIfHidden">showIfHidden option to line widgets</a>
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<li><a href="#module">Module loaders</a>
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<li><a href="#shareddata">Mutating shared data structures</a></li>
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<li><a href="#deprecated">Deprecated interfaces dropped</a>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<article>
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<h2 id=upgrade>Upgrading to version 4</h2>
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<p>CodeMirror 4's interface is <em>very</em> close version 3, but it
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does fix a few awkward details in a backwards-incompatible ways. At
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least skim the text below before upgrading.</p>
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<section id=multisel><h2>Multiple selections</h2>
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<p>The main new feature in version 4 is multiple selections. The
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single-selection variants of methods are still there, but now
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typically act only on the <em>primary</em> selection (usually the last
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one added).</p>
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<p>The exception to this
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is <a href="manual.html#getSelection"><strong><code>getSelection</code></strong></a>,
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which will now return the content of <em>all</em> selections
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(separated by newlines, or whatever <code>lineSep</code> parameter you passed
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it).</p>
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</section>
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<section id=beforeSelectionChange><h2>The beforeSelectionChange event</h2>
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<p>This event still exists, but the object it is passed has
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a <a href="manual.html#event_beforeSelectionChange">completely new
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interface</a>, because such changes now concern multiple
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selections.</p>
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</section>
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<section id=replaceSelection><h2>replaceSelection's collapsing behavior</h2>
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<p>By
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default, <a href="manual.html#replaceSelection"><code>replaceSelection</code></a>
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would leave the newly inserted text selected. This is only rarely what
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you want, and also (slightly) more expensive in the new model, so the
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default was changed to <code>"end"</code>, meaning the old behavior
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must be explicitly specified by passing a second argument
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of <code>"around"</code>.</p>
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</section>
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<section id=changeEvent><h2>change event data</h2>
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<p>Rather than forcing client code to follow <code>next</code>
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pointers from one change object to the next, the library will now
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simply fire
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multiple <a href="manual.html#event_change"><code>"change"</code></a>
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events. Existing code will probably continue to work unmodified.</p>
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</section>
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<section id=showIfHidden><h2>showIfHidden option to line widgets</h2>
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<p>This option, which conceptually caused line widgets to be visible
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even if their line was hidden, was never really well-defined, and was
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buggy from the start. It would be a rather expensive feature, both in
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code complexity and run-time performance, to implement properly. It
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has been dropped entirely in 4.0.</p>
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</section>
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<section id=module><h2>Module loaders</h2>
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<p>All modules in the CodeMirror distribution are now wrapped in a
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shim function to make them compatible with both AMD
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(<a href="http://requirejs.org">requirejs</a>) and CommonJS (as used
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by <a href="http://nodejs.org/">node</a>
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and <a href="http://browserify.org/">browserify</a>) module loaders.
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When neither of these is present, they fall back to simply using the
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global <code>CodeMirror</code> variable.</p>
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<p>If you have a module loader present in your environment, CodeMirror
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will attempt to use it, and you might need to change the way you load
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CodeMirror modules.</p>
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</section>
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<section id=shareddata><h2>Mutating shared data structures</h2>
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<p>Data structures produced by the library should not be mutated
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unless explicitly allowed, in general. This is slightly more strict in
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4.0 than it was in earlier versions, which copied the position objects
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returned by <a href="manual.html#getCursor"><code>getCursor</code></a>
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for nebulous, historic reasons. In 4.0, mutating these
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objects <em>will</em> corrupt your editor's selection.</p>
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</section>
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<section id=deprecated><h2>Deprecated interfaces dropped</h2>
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<p>A few properties and methods that have been deprecated for a while
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are now gone. Most notably, the <code>onKeyEvent</code>
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and <code>onDragEvent</code> options (use the
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corresponding <a href="manual.html#event_dom">events</a> instead).</p>
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<p>Two silly methods, which were mostly there to stay close to the 0.x
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API, <code>setLine</code> and <code>removeLine</code> are now gone.
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Use the more
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flexible <a href="manual.html#replaceRange"><code>replaceRange</code></a>
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method instead.</p>
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<p>The long names for folding and completing functions
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(<code>CodeMirror.braceRangeFinder</code>, <code>CodeMirror.javascriptHint</code>,
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etc) are also gone
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(use <code>CodeMirror.fold.brace</code>, <code>CodeMirror.hint.javascript</code>).</p>
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<p>The <code>className</code> property in the return value
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of <a href="manual.html#getTokenAt"><code>getTokenAt</code></a>, which
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has been superseded by the <code>type</code> property, is also no
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longer present.</p>
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</section>
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</article>
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