Answer: How can I clear a Codemirror editor field from Cypress

I was able to with a little help from another answer in the responses to come up with a solution.

1. Problem domain involved embedded editor CodeMirror
2. I wanted to use Cypress to remove all Text in a field then simulate a user typing in all their own, like a copy-paste.
3. Could not remove code from the editor with Cypress as expected.

Normally I am afraid to use StackOverflow because I don't want to be shutdown or talked down too. I tweeted my question and got a great response; friendly and helpful! This is the type of interaction I love to see in StackOverflow.
Big thanks again to @evanplaice for seeing my tweet and helping out, here is his Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanplaice

answer re: How can I clear a Codemirror editor field from Cypress

May 26 '20

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The solution I ended up using looked something similar to code block in the question with a few changes.

• I am not getting the window object from Cypress; CodeMirror editor wasn't there.

• I used the idea Evan Plaice gave me related to the Editor instance being on the DOM and…

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