Send selected text from editor to board

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by JumJum

During testing I often missed a function to send selected code from Editor Window to the board.
Examples are:

• replace code for one function only
• add a list of testing commands to source
• recall functions like init
  Obviously use of copy from editor and paste in terminal would help.
  For my needs it became long-winded, and a hack was born.

Installation of quick hack:

• start webIDE (https://www.espruino.com/ide/) in chrome browser
• open devTools of chrome browser for this window
• copy following source to devtools console
• there should be a new button named P2B (post to board) at the end of editor buttons
• select code, you want to sent
• click the button

a = document.createElement("a");
a.id = "icon-paste";
a.title = "paste to board";
a.onclick = function(){
  var cm = Espruino.Core.EditorJavaScript.getCodeMirror();
  var txt = cm.getSelection();
  var tmp = Espruino.Config.RESET_BEFORE_SEND;
  Espruino.Core.MenuPortSelector.ensureConnected(function() {
    Espruino.Config.RESET_BEFORE_SEND = false;
    Espruino.Core.CodeWriter.writeToEspruino(txt,function(){
      Espruino.Config.RESET_BEFORE_SEND = tmp;
    });
  });
};
a.innerText = "P2B";
x = document.getElementById("icon-deploy");
x.parentNode.insertBefore(a,x.nextSiblingElement);

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by Raik

That's awesome. I find myself often enough doing the same thing.

+1 for making this a standard feature of the WebIDE :)

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by @gfwilliams

Nice, thanks! This seems like a really neat idea.

Having a key shortcut would be even more useful - I just added some code to make key shortcuts nice and easy, so I might try adding this there.

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by JumJum

I love feedback like this :-))
@gordon, may be, you could add something like addShortcut to Espruino.Plugins.KeyShortcuts ?

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by @gfwilliams

That's good feedback too ;) Actually SHORTCUTS was public you could just do Espruino.Plugins.KeyShortcuts.SHORTCUTS["Ctrl + X"] = ...

I'll add that now.

This is probably overkill but potentially if nothing was selected and the cursor was in a global function, the IDE could automatically upload that whole function... With the Acorn parser (used in the 'compiled'/etc handling) it's probably not such a big deal to do.

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by @gfwilliams

Ok, just pushed it - but it's not live on espruino.com/ide yet. Currently I'm using Ctrl + \ but I'm open to more sensible key combinations

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by Raik

if nothing was selected and the cursor was in a global function, the IDE could automatically upload that whole function

would definitively speed things up

Currently I'm using Ctrl + \ but I'm open to more sensible key combinations

On german keyboard layout the \ needs to be used with Alt Gr, so Ctrl+Alt Gr+
Maybe not a big deal, but could be bothersome.

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by @allObjects

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by @allObjects

The availability of a partial update can open can of worms... because its proper working depends on various things that require understanding of how Espruino works. So the documentation should include some warning / caution that this is an advanced function and its use could render the application broken... (You need to know what you are doing).

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-26 by Robin

Tue 2020.02.25

I know I'm going to take a ton of flak for making this observation, but in the fun of those of us that know the poster experience level here. . . .

'You need to know what you are doing'

Editing in two browser instances at the same time are we?

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-26 by AkosLukacs

Shift-enter works as a shortcut in some REPLs, I would prefer that.
Like @raik, on a hungarian keyboard, you can't just press Ctrl + \ easily.
Oh, while we are at keyboard shortcuts: [] characters are on AltGr-F and AltGr-G on a hungarian keyboard, but that conflicts with Web-Ide's show/hide "right side". So making that configurable would be nice :)

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2020-02-28 by @gfwilliams

Ok, shift-enter sounds good. I'll make the change.

re: 'Web-Ide's show/hide "right side"' - not quite sure what you mean? Alt/Alt-Gf + F doesn't seem to do anything for me. Ctrl-F goes fullscreen which might be what you mean? I'm not sure how that can get confused with AltGr though?

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2020-02-28 by AkosLukacs

Oh, looks like it's a Native Ide only thing.
If I connect to a device, go to the left side (terminal) and hit AltGr-F, it does the same as if I hit CTRL-F. But only the Native Ide, assumed it does the same everywhere. I'm on win 10...