[ZEPPELIN-977] STYLE out of date, and no other documentation on editor configuration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.5.6, 0.6.0
• Component/s: GUI
• Labels: Ace Web

Environment

Webapp

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris Brown
• Created: 08/Jun/16 14:45
• Updated: 09/Jun/16 01:50

Description

I would like to customize the Ace editor in the notebook, and I've dug around on both 0.5.6 and master from GitHub, but I'm not sure how to make changes besides editing specific lines the JS source and rebuilding. In particular, https://github.com/apache/incubator-zeppelin/blob/master/STYLE.md doesn't seem to describe either 0.5.6 or master.

In particular, I want to do stuff like:

1. Change block cursor to caret, like any other non-terminal text editor
2. Disable ctrl-f (cmd-f) hijacking (why would I want to text search inside a single search field?)
3. Disable automatic parens / quote matching (I'm smarter than it is, at least in this case)
4. Change ctrl-. suggestion popup shortcut to ctrl-space, like other text editors

Other configuration I would like to be able to customize, but are not entirely Ace-editor related:

• Disable confirmation of cell deletion
• Disable confirmation of interpreter restart