org.netbeans.spi.editor.caret

Interface CaretMoveHandler

public interface CaretMoveHandler

Handle possible moving of individual carets to new positions or change their selections.

Since:

2.6

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	moveCarets(CaretMoveContext context) Possibly move one or more carets to new position or change their selections by using methods in the given context.

Method Detail

moveCarets

void moveCarets(@NonNull
                CaretMoveContext context)

Possibly move one or more carets to new position or change their selections by using methods in the given context.
The method will be called with a document lock acquired.
The method is allowed to make document mutations in case the caller of EditorCaret.moveCarets(CaretMoveHandler) acquired document write-lock.
To prevent deadlocks the method should not acquire any additional locks.
The method is not allowed to call methods of EditorCaret that mutate its state and do nested calls to EditorCaret.moveCarets().

Parameters:

context - non-null context containing the manipulation methods.