Class FeText

Class Methods

Called from internal code to create and endorse new Editions. Does not check the contents; assumes that it will only be called by trusted code.

Overrides: FeWrapper class

Overrides: FeWrapper class

Overrides: FeWrapper class

Overrides: FeWrapper class

Overrides: FeWrapper class

Instance Methods

The Edition of the actual contents, without any style information. You should use this instead of edition() when you want to get the Edition for comparisons, queries, etc. Future styled text implementations will not store the contents as directly as we do now.

The number of elements in the string

Overrides: FeWrapper

All the text lying within the region, with the gaps compressed out.

Insert new information into the Edition at the given point, pushing everything after it forward.

Insert a virtual copy of the region of text before the given position, and remove it from its current location. If the position is one past the last character, then it will be inserted after the end. If the region is discontiguous, then the contiguous pieces are concatenated together, in sequence, and inserted.

Overrides: Object

Replaces a region of text with a virtual copy of text from another document.
If the destination region lies to the left of the domain, inserts before the beginning; if it intersects the domain, insert at the first common position; if it lies after the end, insert after the end. Fails with
BLAST(AmbiguousReplacement) if the region is empty.
May be used to copy information within a single document.
This operation may not be particularly useful with non-simple destination regions.

Check that information can be inserted at the position. Blast if not.