• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Priority: Minor
• Component/s: core
• Labels:

  • extension
  • feature-request
  • plugin

[JENKINS-65094] Change text editors to be extensible

Pedro created issue - 2021-03-11 19:53

Pedro made changes - 2021-03-11 19:53

Description

Original: Currently Jenkins uses the [Ace9|https://ace.c9.io/] editor as its text editor for pipelines (and {{textarea}} for most other "big boxes"). I didn't do a deep dive on Jenkins source code, but searching around it seems I there is no support for plugins to modify or extend the pipeline text editor. I believe it would be a net positive if we could write plugins to override the text editor. In particular, I'd like to use Microsoft's [Monaco Editor|https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor] over Ace9, as I feel it has a better feature set and looks better especially with Dark Mode. Since I couldn't find any plugin around - nor any plugin that changes text editors for that matter - I belive this means that Jenkins' text editor functionality aren't extensible at the present time.   So this ticket is a feature request to enable extensibility for the pipeline text editor and possibly other textareas(not sure if _this_ is feasible).   Thanks.

New: Currently Jenkins uses the [Ace9|https://ace.c9.io/] editor as its text editor for pipelines (and {{textarea}} for most other "big boxes"). I didn't do a deep dive on Jenkins source code, but searching around it seems I there is no support for plugins to modify or extend the pipeline text editor. I believe it would be a net positive if we could write plugins to override the text editor. In particular, I'd like to use Microsoft's [Monaco Editor|https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor] over Ace9, as I feel it has a better feature set and looks better especially with Dark Mode. Since I couldn't find any plugin around - nor any plugin that changes text editors for that matter - I belive this means that Jenkins' text editor functionality aren't extensible at the present time.   So this ticket is a feature request to enable extensibility for the pipeline text editor and possibly other textareas(not sure if _this_ is feasible).

Collapse comment: Oleg Nenashev added a comment - 2021-03-17 08:48

Oleg Nenashev added a comment - 2021-03-17 08:48

Would be a nice enhancement

Expand comment: Oleg Nenashev added a comment - 2021-03-17 08:48

Oleg Nenashev added a comment - 2021-03-17 08:48 Would be a nice enhancement