Editors

The Editors section overview.

This section covers working with text in the IntelliJ Platform editor. It is presented in two major sections:

Editor basics tutorial
- Using the action system to access a caret placed in a document open in an editor.
- Accessing position information about a caret in an editor: coordinate systems and offsets.
- Handling actions activated by keystroke events in the editor.
Multiple carets
- Working with multiple, independent, carets in one editor.
- How multiple carets affect core functionality, editor actions, typing actions, and code insight actions.