Hi Saros-Team,
as part of the current "Softwareprozesse" lecture here we (Alexander Kurth and I) were tasked to work on an OSS software bug or feature for a few weeks. We have chosen to tackle a non-critical feature in Saros/I, enabling support for displaying multiple carets in IntelliJ IDEA (Issue #116). We dived into the code and I would like to get some feedback regarding our solution approach before starting the implementation, especially since there seem to be multiple possibilities, such as: 1. Display the caret's position upon text entry by the user through the TextEditActivity. This would be an easy approach, because it requires the smallest changes. But the big downside is that the caret will only be updated after a user edited some text, not if it is only being moved around. 2. Display the caret's position upon moving by the user through the TextSelectionActivity. We can read the carets position with the CaretListener, but there seems to be no specific activity to transmit the updated caret. We could use the TextSelectionActivity with a length parameter of 0 to signal a moved caret and handle it in LocalEditorManipulator.selectText? There will probably be even other approaches that we didn't consider yet, and we would value your input on this. In another matter, we couldn't find any test cases related to the editor classes. Could you maybe kindly point us in the right direction? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Jacob Schramm
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