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

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:

• Actions

• General Threading Rules