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# NSWritingToolsBehavior

Constants that specify the Writing Tools experience for the underlying view.

```
enum NSWritingToolsBehavior
```

## Overview

Writing Tools provide proofreading and rewriting support for the
content of text views. On devices that support Writing Tools
features, people engage the system UI to choose how to rewrite
all or part of the available text. These constants indicate whether
people experience Writing Tools inline with their text, in an
overlay panel, or not at all.

## Topics

### Getting the Writing Tools behaviors

[`case none`](/documentation/AppKit/NSWritingToolsBehavior/none)

An option to prevent Writing Tools from modifying the text in the view.

[`case `default``](/documentation/AppKit/NSWritingToolsBehavior/default)

An option to let the system determine the best way to enable Writing Tools for the view.

[`case complete`](/documentation/AppKit/NSWritingToolsBehavior/complete)

An option to provide the complete Writing Tools experience for the text view.

[`case limited`](/documentation/AppKit/NSWritingToolsBehavior/limited)

An option to provide a limited, overlay-panel experience for the text view.

### Initializers

[`init?(rawValue: Int)`](/documentation/AppKit/NSWritingToolsBehavior/init(rawValue:))

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`RawRepresentable`](/documentation/Swift/RawRepresentable)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`BitwiseCopyable`](/documentation/Swift/BitwiseCopyable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

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