[Editable] forwardRef

[Mangatt]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Feature

What's the current behavior?

Editable is not able to hold ref

Slate: 0.60.4
Browser: Chrome / Safari / Firefox / Edge
OS: Mac / Windows / Linux / iOS / Android

What's the expected behavior?

Editable could be able to hold ref with React.forwardRef. Since this component is currently using ref internally, ref would have to be patched, but technically this does not pose a problem.

If there isn't reason for this limitation in Slate internals, I'll create PR.

[williamstein]

Comment from a user (hence a +1 for this idea): A few days ago I had no choice but to implement something very similar to this in my local copy of slate-react in order to implement scroll position save/restore (when you come back to editing a document, I need to restore the scroll position).

sagemathinc/cocalc@18b2694

[skotchpine]

Same issue for us at userhero.io

[bryanph]

No reason, PR is welcome

[WillTaylor22]

Apologies for not contributing much - and thanks for all the great work, but just thought I'd +1 this as this would be super valuable for our startup.