Feature request: lineNumber in a mode stream

[aslushnikov]

It would be great to have a lineNumber for a mode stream object (aka "StringStream").

I'm trying to implement a feature to highlight all occurrences of selected word except the one being selected via addOverlay method, and I definitely lack the line number on the stream object.

Thanks!

[marijnh]

This is not going to happen, since is extremely problematic: highlighting information produced for line when it was line 10 may be reused when someone presses enter a few times above it, making it line 12. Also, the more we tie modes to their context, the harder they will be to reuse (in multiplexing modes or things like runMode).

In your use case, one solution would be to put a marker on the current match which cancels the styling done by the overlay (using css precedence or !important).

[aslushnikov]

Thank you for the workaround!