library(shiny) shinyServer(function(input, output, session) { output$log <- renderText({ # note that the editor `outputId` is prepended to the name of # the input value for both cursor position and selection # i.e., use `ace_cusor` and `ace_selection` rather than # `cursor` and `selection` req(input$ace_cursor) paste0( "Cursor position: row ", input$ace_cursor$row, ", column ", input$ace_cursor$col, "\nSelection: \"", input$ace_selection, "\"" ) }) })