Show cursor/caret movements of other users in real time.
- Etherpad plugin framework (hooks declared in
ep.json)
ep_cursortrace/
├── AGENTS.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── coalescer.js
├── docs/
├── ep.json
├── handleMessage.js
├── package.json
├── static/
│ ├── css/
│ ├── js/
│ ├── tests/
None — ep_plugin_helpers is not a dependency. Adoption is part of the helpers-adoption sweep (Phase 4).
To be audited in the helpers-adoption sweep (Phase 4).
ep_cursortrace runs inside Etherpad's test harness. From an etherpad checkout that has installed this plugin via pnpm run plugins i --path ../ep_cursortrace:
# Backend (Mocha) — harness boots its own server
pnpm --filter ep_etherpad-lite run test
# Playwright — needs `pnpm run dev` in a second terminal
pnpm --filter ep_etherpad-lite run test-ui- PRs target
main. Linear commits, no merge commits. - Every bug fix includes a regression test in the same commit.
- All user-facing strings in
locales/. No hardcoded English in templates. - No hardcoded
aria-labelon icon-only controls — etherpad's html10n auto-populatesaria-labelfrom the localized string when (a) the element has adata-l10n-idand (b) no author-suppliedaria-labelis present. Adding a hardcoded Englisharia-labelblocks that and leaves it untranslated. (Seeetherpad-lite/src/static/js/vendors/html10n.ts:665-678.) - No nested interactive elements (no
<button>inside<a>). - LLM/Agent contributions are explicitly welcomed by maintainers.
- Server:
handleMessage - Client:
aceEditorCSS,aceInitInnerdocbodyHead,postAceInit,aceEditEvent,handleClientMessage_CUSTOM
When adding a hook, register it in both ep.json and the matching exports.<hook> = ... in the JS file.