[dev] EditorView doesn't have an easy way to access Editor config elements

[sbromberger]

Consider the case where you have an editor config item that is accessed from within an EditorView method.

Right now we're having to extract individual config items out of the editor config prior to it being altered in

helix/helix-term/src/application.rs

Line 120 in ad15e7b

let config = Arc::new(ArcSwap::from_pointee(config));

, and then we pass in the extracted items to a modified EditorView::new() function (with the params as arguments to new(), which means every time we want to add a new config item that is handled by an EditorView, we have to change the signature of this constructor).

Is it possible to pass (a reference to) the entire editor config to an EditorView so that we have access to config variables within EditorView methods?

[sbromberger]

Turns out that the editor instance is present in render_view which allows it to be passed to other render functions, so we don't actually need it in EditorView.