Overview of Attribute Fixing in NSTextStorage

Sep 21st, 2022

NSTextStorage provides attribute fixing of user-entered text, via NSMutableAttributedString.fixAttributes(in:). Attribute fixing… NSMutableAttributedString.fixAttributes(in:) always work on full paragraph ranges. It extends the passed-in range as needed “to cover the last paragraph partially contained”.

Why the Selection Changes When You Do Syntax Highlighting in a NSTextView and What You Can Do About It

Nov 29th, 2017

On iOS, this does maybe not happen at all, but when you want to write syntax highlighting code for macOS apps, copying together stuff from around the web, you’ll end up with broken application behavior. In short: when you type and the attributes of the line change, the insertion point is moved to the end of the line. That sucks.