Show the caret position of authors within Etherpad

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
• Per-user and pad-wide settings toggle for showing other users locations

TODO

• 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

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.