Creating jQuery Plugin for RTE Intellisense
Was doing some proof of concept with RTE plugin like CKEditor or TinyMCE, and ended up with an interest to incorporate a text hints or intellisense for the editor.
At first I was trying to use the jQuery Autocomplete, but it tie to a input box, and RTE does not use input box, they use contenteditable DOM element like <body> inside an iframe. And I came across the amazing code editor CodeMirror that came with the amazing autocomplete feature that I was looking for, it pops up nicely where it meant to be, and performance was terrific, but I don’t want dependencies from any of CodeMirror’s code base, and reverse engineering isn’t my strength.
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