[Geany-Devel] How to programmatically de-select text

[Lex Trotman]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 15:12, Austin Green <austin.green at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
> Trying to programmatically cancel a text selection.  There are functions that will probably do it, e.g. sci_set_selection, but bearing in mind the restriction on changing the API, those functions are not callable from my code.
>
> Surely I'm missing something obvious here?  I do hope so!   :)


Scintilla docs say "If the anchor and the current position are the
same, there is no selected text." so probably set selection start and
end both to current position.
https://www.geany.org/manual/reference/sciwrappers_8h.html#a6649bca185bcc34837642cb61b4e7791

Cheers
Lex

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> Cheers, Austin.
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