Allow calling methods on editor. about react-ace HOT 5 CLOSED

I'd be open to a pull request go for it (sorry for the late response) @captncraig

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ReactAce looks to have an editor property, which is the wrapped editor. As you suggested, you could use refs to get to the component, and then you should be able to use the editor on the component to run the function you need:

const reactAceComponent = parent.refs.reactAceComponent;
const editor = reactAceComponent.editor
editor.find(searchRegex, {
   backwards: false,
   wrap: true,
   caseSensitive: false,
   wholeWord: false,
   regExp: true,
});

As you said, a bit odd, but it should work. Hopefully this helped. If that doesn't work, I can put together a PR to put in that passthrough.

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Why not just expose the editor instance through a callback passed down to the AceEditor component? Then users would have full access to the underlying editor's API.

EDIT:
I found that the editor instance is returned from onLoad so it should be possible to call methods on the editor using that instance, correct?

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@lukaszczapiga that is correct the instance of the editor is available onload but as @drewen mentioned you can access it on the parent component using the ref

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This is now documented in the repo in a few ways. I'm going to close this issue.

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