Getting SwiftUI TextEditor's Selection Range

I'm working on a document-based SwiftUI app for Mac and iOS that uses SwiftUI's TextEditor for entering text. I want to insert markup, such as Markdown formatting, into the text editor. For example in Markdown to create bold text, I would select the text, press Cmd-B (or use a button or menu), and insert the asterisks at the start and the end of the selection.

With NSTextViewand UITextView I can access the range of the selection using the selectedRange property. But looking through the documentation for TextEditor, I see no way of getting the range of the selection. Without the selection range there's no way for me to insert the markup in the correct position.

How do I get the range of the selection in a SwiftUI text editor?

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Hi @szymczyk, did you find a solution to your question? If so could you please share the answer?

  • No, I did not find a solution.

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