Show the caret position of authors on your Etherpad um, Pad.

Important: A caret is not a cursor, a cursor is what your mouse uses.. A caret is the little stick used in a word processor. The more you know....

Looking for the follow feature? See ep_author_follow

Features

• See where another authors caret is in really real time

TODO

• Avoid race condition where the ACE object is sent and the cursor but the cursor arrives before the event

• Add a buffer

• Show the stick on the right when the righter px of the span is greater than the total width of outerdocbody IE the name doesnt fit on the screen

• Test Coverage

Get it done

Contact the developers through github to sponsor development of bugfixes and features

Installation

Install from the Etherpad admin UI (Admin → Manage Plugins, search for ep_cursortrace and click Install), or from the Etherpad root directory:

pnpm run plugins install ep_cursortrace

⚠️ Don't run npm i / npm install yourself from the Etherpad source tree — Etherpad tracks installed plugins through its own plugin-manager, and hand-editing package.json can leave the server unable to start.

After installing, restart Etherpad.