On 20. Sep 2018, at 08:54, Georg Seifert wrote:
> I wonder why it supports multiple selection in the first place, when you can
> do almost nothing with it?
The way I remember it being introduced at WWDC was not as "multiple selection"
but rather as "column selection". That might make some of th
NSTextView's support for multiple selections isn't too bad. You can apply
formatting to multiple selections out of the box, which is handy and probably
the most obvious use case. Oh and you can copy multiple selections to the
pasteboard all at once.
But I understand your frustration. It can be
Thanks for the explanation.
I wonder why it supports multiple selection in the first place, when you can do
almost nothing with it?
Georg
> On 19. Sep 2018, at 18:26, Martin Wierschin wrote:
>
> So far as I know this is not possible with a stock NSTextView. The selected
> range array is aut
So far as I know this is not possible with a stock NSTextView. The selected
range array is automatically normalized by NSTextView, to sort and coalesce
ranges as needed. If any zero-length ranges are in a given selection array,
only a single zero-length range is allowed and maintained by NSTextV
Hi
Is it possible to make NSTextView to allow typing with multiple insertion
points? One can set multiple selection and delete all of them at once. But
typing only replaces the first range and ignores the other ranges.
Thanks
Georg
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