Install
This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.
Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:
wp plugin install https://github.com/devaloka/cm-special-char-indicator/archive/refs/heads/master.zipExtensible special character indicator for CodeMirror, which is useful to avoid hard-to-find errors caused by non-usual characters.
Backgrounds
CodeMirror which is integrated in WP code editor also supports special characters indicator.
However, the default indicator (red dot) is a bit small. In addition WP doesn't have proper way to extend CodeMirror settings that is not JSON-encodable.
This plugin provides easy-to-find indication and the filter hook to extend special characters.
Special characters
By default, this plugin emphasizes the special characters below.
The default special characters defined by CodeMirror
The characters below are the default ones supported by CodeMirror by default.
- U+0000-U+001F
- U+007F-U+009F
- U+00AD
- U+061C
- U+200B-U+200F
- U+2028
- U+2029
- U+FEFF
Additional special characters
This plugin adds a few characters below.
- U+00A0
- U+FEFE
Hooks
You can modify special characters what you want to emphasize by the filter hook below.
apply_filters( 'cmsci_special_chars', $special_chars )
Filters the list of the special characters to highlight.
Description
This includes the same elements as the default value of CodeMirror.defaults.specialChars option by default.
Parameters
- $special_chars (string[]) An array of the special characters. Each element is evaluated as a character in RegExp character class.
LICENSE
- MIT
- GNU General Public License v2 or later
SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT OR GPL-2.0-or-later