Expose position of textarea

[kevinhwang91]

Description

Comparing with firenvim, I prefer GhostText, which is not conflicted my shortcuts in chromium and doesn't slow me down in neovim.

I have tried GhostText with raghur/vim-ghost. I wanna make the position of nvim cover the textarea so I need the position of textarea. After enabling the log, the position of the textarea isn't passed to websocket server.

recd on websocket: ('127.0.0.1', 53718) message:
{"text":"","selections":[{"start":0,"end":0}],"title":"xxxxxxxxx","url":"github.com","syntax":""}

[subnut]

Well, I don't think it's possible to access the absolute position of the text area relative to your monitor....

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[fregante]

Well, I don't think it's possible to access the absolute position of the text area relative to your monitor....

It its via getBoundingClientRect + window.screenTop/Left - (window.outerHeight - window.innerHeight)

I thought about this in the past but I figured that most of the times the textarea is too small for this to make sense. The good part of using your editor is that it's a bigger window, so sizing it to the textarea would be counterproductive.