Ace Editor - Go to line

M Miller picture M Miller · May 20, 2014 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I'm trying a fairly simple operation with Ace Editor: having the editor jump to a particular line. I can't get it to work, though!

See this jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Xu9Tb/

var editor = ace.edit('editor');

editor.scrollToLine(50, true, true, function () {});
    // Doesn't do anything at all

editor.gotoLine(50, 10, true);
    // Will move the caret to the line, but it will not scroll
    // to the editor to the line if it's off screen

Any advice?

Thanks.

Answer

M Miller picture M Miller · May 20, 2014

There appears to be a bug in the current version of Ace Editor. If you manually call editor.resize(true), it will recalculate the height and the scrolling functions work correctly:

var editor = ace.edit('editor');
editor.resize(true);

editor.scrollToLine(50, true, true, function () {});

editor.gotoLine(50, 10, true);

http://jsfiddle.net/Xu9Tb/1/