As far as I know Selection API (
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/getSelection) is 
not present in Elm. So there is no way (no sane way) to do text editor in 
pure elm as of right now.

On Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 11:33:32 PM UTC+3, Joey Eremondi wrote:
>
> there is no way to implement rich text editor in pure elm
>
>
> That's certainly not true, it's certainly possible, but you'd have to 
> write all the editor code yourself, and there aren't (I think) any good 
> libraries for doing it yet.  
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Bulat Shamsutdinov <
> [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi! As far as I got into the same question, there is no way to implement 
>> rich text editor in pure elm, it misses some core functionality like 
>> selections. The only way is to use ports to JS code and that comes with 
>> it's nasty hacks too.
>>
>> On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 9:01:46 PM UTC+3, Haitao Zhang wrote:
>>>
>>> Can anyone point to an editor done in Elm? I am particularly interested 
>>> in seeing how mouse interaction (highlight, selection, copy, paste etc) is 
>>> handled. I looked through DreamWriter. I don't think it implements the part 
>>> I mentioned in Elm, though to be honest I am not quite sure how it 
>>> accomplishes the editing actions.
>>>
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