I’m trying to insert widgets on lines that contain a particular keyword \newpage
, and the widget is simply a marker that displays whatever the current page count tally is up to that point in the document.
What’s the best way to update those widgets as the user is typing in the document, potentially moving/creating/deleting new instances of the \newpage
keyword? Right now I’m running CodeMirror with React, and every time the Codemirror content updates, I trigger a function to gather all of my widgets using document.getElementsByClassName
and then remove
them all, then immediately scan each line again looking for the \newpage
keyword to re-generate new widgets in the appropriate places. This is a lot of clearing and creating of widgets with every user keystroke and seems inefficient (especially as the document size increases), but I’m struggling to figure out a cleaner way to ensure all the widgets are updated live as the user types. Is there a better approach to this?