Configuring autogrow plugin with djangocms-text-ckeditor - django-cms

Question

I am trying to use the autogrow plugin for ckeditor. As I am new to django and ckeditor I am having trouble with configuration. My settings are not being recognized. Below is a list of steps. I have seen reference to having to build ckeditor over again. I do not know if this is needed.
Platform: Ubuntu, django-cms 3 beta, djangocms-text-ckeditor (installed used pip in virtualenv), python 2.7.
I do not know exactly what I need to do, but I changed the following anyway.
S1. In project's settings.py, added
CKEDITOR_SETTINGS = getattr(settings, 'CKEDITOR_SETTINGS', {
'config.autoGrow_onStartup': True,
'config.autoGrow_minHeight': 200,
'config.autoGrow_maxHeight': 400,
})
S2. In ../site-packages/django_text_ckeditor/static/ckeditor/config.js, edited
CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config ) {
// Define changes to default configuration here. For example:
// config.language = 'fr';
// config.uiColor = '#AADC6E';
config.autoGrow_onStartup = true;
config.autoGrow_minHeight = 2000;
config.autoGrow_maxHeight = 4000;
};
S3. Added the autogrow plugin folder to
"../site-packages/django_text_ckeditor/static/ckeditor/plugins/autogrow"
S4. Modified line 45 of
"../site-packages/django_text_ckeditor/static/js/cms.ckeditor.js"
'extraPlugins': 'cmsplugins, autogrow'
S5. Added an extra statement after line 58 of
"../site-packages/django_text_ckeditor/static/js/cms.ckeditor.js"
// this is line 58
CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal('cmsplugins', settings.static_url + 'ckeditor_plugins/cmsplugins/');
// this is the added line
CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal('autogrow', settings.static_url + 'ckeditor/plugins/autogrow');
Do not know what else to do? Thoughts? Advice?

Answer 1

I'am using standard django-ckeditor from here: https://github.com/django-ckeditor/django-ckeditor
Your Step S2 and S4 and S5 are not needed. It makes no sens to modify the source of ckeditor. Just download the autogrow plugin from http://ckeditor.com/addon/autogrow and config with settings.py:
CKEDITOR_CONFIGS = {
'default': {
'autoGrow_onStartup': True,
'autoGrow_minHeight': 100,
'autoGrow_maxHeight': 650,
'extraPlugins': 'autogrow',
'toolbar': 'Custom',
'toolbar_Custom': [
['Bold', 'Italic', 'Underline'],
['Format'],
#['NumberedList', 'BulletedList', '-', 'Outdent', 'Indent', '-', 'JustifyLeft', 'JustifyCenter', 'JustifyRight', 'JustifyBlock'],
['Link', 'Unlink'],
['RemoveFormat', 'Source']
],
}
}