Append text to editor with a command button

[crazy.8]

I want to have a commandButton that will insert a text at the current cursor in the editor for a macro that I will parse on the back end. I want to insert #SomeMaco# and have it show up in the editor while they are finishing the email, is this possible?

Thanks!

[Drake]

I'd like this feature too!

I see that p:editor is based on CLEditor,
but in this section http://premiumsoftware.net/cleditor/doc ... itorMethod I couldn't find an "insertAtCursor" method or something like that.

A nice to have feature could be Drag&Drop placeholders

[Drake]

Finally I solved it.
I created n buttons in a div with id "availablePlaceholders".
Then, I used this script to add .click() behaviour to the buttons.

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<h:outputScript target="body">
            jQuery(PrimeFaces.escapeClientId('availablePlaceholders button')).click(function() {
            var token = jQuery(this).attr('id');
            editorHtml.editor.focus();
            setTimeout(function() {
            editorHtml.editor.execCommand('inserthtml', '{ ' + token + ' }', false);
            }, 0);
            return false
            });
       </h:outputScript>

Note: editorHtml is the widgetVar of p:editor.

Clicking a button with id "hello", inserts "{ hello}" in the p:editor at cursor position.

Hope it helps

[cagatay.civici]

Great, thx for sharing with community.