{ $class-description "An editor is a control for editing a multi-line passage of text stored in a " { $link document } " model. Editors are crated by calling " { $link <editor> } "."
{ { $snippet "caret" } " - a model storing a line/column pair." }
{ { $snippet "mark" } " - a model storing a line/column pair. If there is no selection, the mark is equal to the caret, otherwise the mark is located at the opposite end of the selection from the caret." }
{ $description "Applies a quotation to the current caret location and moves the caret and the mark to the location output by the quotation." } ;
HELP:point>loc
{ $values { "point""a pair of integers" } { "editor" editor } { "loc""a pair of integers" } }
{ $description "Converts a point to a line/column number pair." } ;
HELP:scroll>caret
{ $values { "editor" editor } }
{ $description "Ensures that the caret becomes visible in a " { $link scroller } " containing the editor. Does nothing if no parent of " { $snippet "gadget" } " is a " { $link scroller } "." } ;
HELP:remove-selection
{ $values { "editor" editor } }
{ $description "Removes currently selected text from the editor's " { $link document } "." } ;
{ $description "Sets the contents of the editor's " { $link document } " to a string, which may use either " { $snippet "\\n" } ", " { $snippet "\\r\\n" } " or " { $snippet "\\r" } " line separators." } ;
ARTICLE: "gadgets-editors-selection""The caret and mark"
"If there is no selection, the caret and the mark are at the same location; otherwise the mark delimits the end-point of the selection opposite the caret."
