Question

I want to get an instance of CodeMirror (it is binded to a textarea ‘#code’). From an onclick-event I want to add a value to the current value of the CodeMirror instance. How can this be achieved? From the docs I can’t seem to find anything to get an instance and bind it to a loca var in javascript.

Answer 1

Someone just posted an answer but removed it. Nevertheless, it was a working solution.
Thanks!

— Basically this was his solution:

// create an instance
var editor = CodeMirror.fromTextArea('code');
// store it
$('#code').data('CodeMirrorInstance', editor);
// get it
var myInstance = $('code').data('CodeMirrorInstance');
// from here on the API functions are available to 'myInstance' again.