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I wish there was documentation like this for more ios components!
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Depends on what you call “similar”. They’ll have storage, layout, a part of the layout that’s visible, etc, but they may not separate them that clearly, and won’t have that rich an API. TextView is way more flexible than what the typical _text_ editor needs. Text editors typically don’t need multiple fonts, multiple font sizes, varying line spacing, paragraph indents, proportional fonts, right-aligning or decimal tab…
Yep. TextView is a beast. For multi-megabyte files I always use Sublime.
In the era of DOM documents (see notion, gitbook) I very often resort to attributed strings to do magic stuff with text parsing and manipulation. It’s such an elegant structure and I don’t understand why is so unknown. Incredible article btw
How did you glean the information needed to write this? Other people’s code? Painful experience? developer.apple.com?
Are the internals of other Mac-native text editors like TextMate similar to this as well?
This is amazing content marketing. Developers are an obvious target niche for such a product. Exposing internals of the software in a way HNers enjoy sounds like a great idea, would love to see if it worked as a traction experiment.
Last time ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38866170 ) there was a small spike in sales, but no lasting effect. I would not say that developers are the target niche. The best customers are professional writers who use a ton of writing apps for different occasions.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on what you call “similar”. They’ll have storage, layout, a part of the layout that’s visible, etc, but they may not separate them that clearly, and won’t have that rich an API. TextView is way more flexible than what the typical _text_ editor needs. Text editors typically don’t need multiple fonts, multiple font sizes, varying line spacing, paragraph indents, proportional fonts, right-aligning or decimal tab…
Yep. TextView is a beast. For multi-megabyte files I always use Sublime.