Map Editor: ability to trigger /editor via Lua

[TheBloke]

I use Map Editor extensively, and would love to have the ability to enter in and out even more quickly. A vanilla Map Editor hotkey would be help a lot, and I hope that might be added at some point, however there would regardless also be benefit from having this be mod controllable. For example, the ability to create a Shortcut Bar button for it.

It is possible to somewhat achieve this by using code such as:

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global.characters = {}
local player = game.players[event.player_index]
global.characters[event.player_index] = player.character
player.set_controller { type = defines.controllers.editor }
--- later, to revert
local player = game.players[event.player_index]
player.set_controller { type = defines.controllers.character, character = global.characters[event.player_index] }

However, this does not precisely replicate /editor. When code such as the above is written, the player's character remains in the world, whereas running /editor removes/hides it.

Furthermore, if the player accidentally runs /editor after he/she has used set_controller to activate Editor, they will be put back into the world without re-attaching to their orphaned character. They must then manually re-attach to that character; the mod could not easily help them do this.

A direct analogue for /editor would thus be helpful. Perhaps LuaPlayer::toggle_map_editor() or something similar?

[Rseding91]

Ok.

[TheBloke]

Thanks very much!