How do I use beautify in Ace Editor?
It looks like this works:
var beautify = ace.require("ace/ext/beautify"); // get reference to extension
var editor = ace.edit("editor"); // get reference to editor
beautify.beautify(editor.session);
It requires that you pass in the Ace Editor session as the first parameter. In my original question, I did not pass in any variables and that was throwing an error.
Note: It did not work well which was mentioned on the extensions release notes. It was not working well enough to use.
I didn't get it working
var beautify = ace.require("ace/ext/beautify"); // get reference to extension
Beautify was always undefined
.
After a while I gave up.
And used the external Beautify library (Link)
function beatify() {
var val = editor.session.getValue();
//Remove leading spaces
var array = val.split(/\n/);
array[0] = array[0].trim();
val = array.join("\n");
//Actual beautify (prettify)
val = js_beautify(val);
//Change current text to formatted text
editor.session.setValue(val);
}