How to access the Editor from the VimEditor

[Julien Phalip (jphalip)]

Hi,

I'm writing an extension for IdeaVim. My extension receives a IJVimEditor object which implements the VimEditor interface. I'd like to access its linked com.intellij.openapi.editor.Editor object. The issue is that, while the IJVimEditor class has a getEditor() method, the class is annotated as internal and therefore I cannot use it directly. The VimEditor interface is public but it does not have a getEditor() method.

Is there a workaround that I could use to access the Editor object?

Thank you.

[Alex Plãte (AlexPl292)]

Hi! Can you try using .ij extension? Like: vimEditor.ij.

[Julien Phalip (jphalip)]

Hi Alex Plãte (@AlexPl292) -- There doesn't seem to be an ij attribute or method available in the vimEditor object. I'm using Java by the way, not Kotlin.

[Julien Phalip (jphalip)]

Here's a workaround I've come up with:

            Window mostRecentFocusedWindow =
                WindowManager.getInstance().getMostRecentFocusedWindow();
            if (!(mostRecentFocusedWindow instanceof IdeFrame activeFrame)) return;
            Editor editor = FileEditorManager.getInstance(activeFrame.getProject()).getSelectedTextEditor();

It doesn't feel ideal though. It would be great if the VimEditor.getEditor() method could be made public/accessible.

[Matt Ellis (citizenmatt)]

Yeah, don't do this 😄 You can use IjVimEditorKt.getIj(vimEditor) to access the vimEditor.ij extension property from Java.