Get text from CM6 editor without losing indentations and line breaks

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I am implementing a code editor in python using codemirror 6 as shown in the image below.

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To run the code, I want to read it from the editor and store it in a backend file for execution. However, when I am trying to get the contents of the editor I am losing indentations which is an important part of python syntax.

I want file contents to be like this -

print("hello")

for i in range(10):
    print(i+1)

But I am currently getting this -

print("hello") for i in range(10): print(i+1)

Is there a way to get the code from the codemirror editor without losing the line breaks and indentations?

2

Yes, view.state.doc.toString() is probably what you’re looking for. I’m kind of curious what you’re doing that does strip line breaks. view.dom.textContent?

3

I am using view.state.doc.toString() only to get the text. I think I am making some mistakes in processing that text due to which line breaks are getting stripped.

Thank you for your help.