TextKit Overview

TextKit goes back to the NeXT era, before Mac OS X was a thing. After the relatively new Cocoa frameworks for Mac app programming were introduced and introduced the “Cocoa Text System” title, iOS and UIKit stuck with “TextKit”, and in 2021 TextKit 2 returned.

This revolves around everything related to accepting textual user input on the Mac:

Even NSTextFields are just reusing a shared NSTextView, called the window’s field editor. It’s everywhere.

Dec 4 2022 ChatGPT: Publish NSTextView Changes to ReSwift, but Also Use a Lamport Clock
Sep 23 2022 NSTextView (Plain Text) and the Pasteboard: PasteboardType.string Is Not Handled
Sep 21 2022 Overview of Attribute Fixing in NSTextStorage
Sep 13 2022 How to Fix When Some Text Changes Don't Come with Automatic Undo?
May 9 2022 PSA: TextKit 2 Has Bugs
May 9 2022 STTextView: A TextKit 2 Text Editor without NSTextView
May 2 2022 TextKit 2 Example App from the Apple Docs
Mar 9 2022 More Swifty NSAttributedString Attribute Query Methods
Nov 24 2021 What Do You Get When You Drag and Drop a PNG File From Finder Into an NSTextView?
Sep 21 2021 NSTextView Performance May Degrade for Large Plain Text Documents When usesFontPanel Is Active
Aug 26 2021 Retry Imperative Conditions with RxSwift Using a Delay
Jun 23 2021 TextKit 2 Introduces Block-Based Layout
Feb 10 2021 Disable NSTextAttachment Action and Sharing Services Menu Drop-Down
Nov 18 2020 Decorate NSGlyphStorage to Replace Glyphs On-the-Fly
Oct 19 2020 Follow Link at Insertion Point in NSTextView
Oct 19 2019 Fix Missing Font Fallbacks for NSTextView
Jun 23 2018 NSTextField usesSingleLineMode Stops Working When You Implement NSTextViewDelegate Methods
Apr 24 2018 RxSwift: Typing/Idle Event Stream for NSTextView
Mar 7 2018 NSTextView's Default Insertion Point and Selected Text Colors
Feb 6 2018 NSTextView: When Did the Find Bar Disappear?
Nov 29 2017 Why the Selection Changes When You Do Syntax Highlighting in a NSTextView and What You Can Do About It
Aug 9 2017 Show a fat iOS-Style Insertion Point in NSTextView
Jul 15 2017 Setting the NSTextView Line Height in a Beautiful Way
Jul 11 2017 Typewriter Mode: Adding Overscrolling to the Text View
Mar 3 2017 Setting the Line Height of a NSTextView