Basics of Working with the Editor

This tutorial will lead you through a series of steps showing how to work with the IntelliJ Platform Editor, how to access and modify text it contains, and how to handle events sent to the editor.

• 1. Working with Text

• 2. Editor Coordinates System. Positions and Offsets

• 3. Handling Editor Events

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The part of the API described in this tutorial only allows operations with "plain text". For operations that require access to the PSI, please see Program Structure Interface (PSI).

The following are referenced in the tutorial:

• The editor_basics plugin code sample,

• editor-ui-api package,

• Those not found in editor-ui-api package:

  • EditorActionManager,

  • EditorActionHandler,

  • TypedActionHandler,

  • TypedAction.

Related topics:

• Action System

• Threading Model