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Find an ace editor in your window or any other object
// Paste this into JS to find an ACE editor in your browser window
// Based off of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12102425/recursively-search-for-a-value-in-global-variables-and-its-properties/12103127#12103127
function isTarget(obj) {
// return typeof obj == typeof value && obj == value
return obj && obj['getSelectedText'];
}
function globalSearch(startObject, isTargetFunc) {
var stack = [[startObject, '']];
var searched = [];
var found = false;
var isArray = function (test) {
return Object.prototype.toString.call(test) === '[object Array]';
}
while (stack.length) {
var fromStack = stack.pop();
var obj = fromStack[0];
var address = fromStack[1];
try {
if (isTargetFunc(obj)) {
var found = address;
break;
} else if (typeof obj == "object" && searched.indexOf(obj) == -1) {
if (isArray(obj)) {
var prefix = '[';
var postfix = ']';
} else {
var prefix = '.';
var postfix = '';
}
for (i in obj) {
stack.push([obj[i], address + prefix + i + postfix]);
}
searched.push(obj);
}
} catch (err) {
console.log("error at", address, err);
}
}
return found == '' ? true : found;
}
globalSearch(window, isTarget);
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