Add "Select All" functionality on Ctrl+A to TextEditor #2321
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Closes #2153.
In principle, a very simple implementation: I created
Action::SelectAll
, which is reacted to by moving the selection to the start and the cursor to the end of the buffer. I've tested with a local project in my NixOS Linux box and it seemed to work fine, I could also use this to copy the whole buffer etc.I also added some code to only perform this selection if the buffer isn't empty, which seems consistent with most text editors I've tried (and also with
TextInput
). Some platforms (such as some browsers and messaging apps) do, however, allow Ctrl+A to select all even on an empty buffer, so, if this is desired, let me know - but the behavior I chose seems to be consistent withSelectWord
andSelectLine
, for example.Since
modifiers.command()
is used, this should cleanly translate to Cmd+A on MacOS, but I haven't tested explicitly.Finally, there was a performance concern over at #2153 (comment). I'm not sure how up-to-date that comment is (it's possible
TextEditor
's code has changed significantly since then), but, in principle, this implementation seems to perform fine, even with hundreds of thousands of lines of text (pasting those lines took much longer (upwards of 15s) than selecting all of them, which took less than a second).NOTE: In my empty buffer check, I use
Option::is_some_and
, which is a Rust 1.70.0+ feature. Let me know if I should replace it if this doesn't meet MSRV criteria. And feel free to drop any further suggestions!NOTE: I didn't make any changes to
TextInput
; it appears to already have support for Ctrl+A functionality.