Selected text in the textarea is selected in VS Code, too, but not quite

[VOOM108]

Description and repro

It is nice that selected text in the textarea will be selected in VS Code, too. But it seems to be a few lines off. Also, it would be nice, if the selected portion of the text would be instantly in the viewport in VS Code, if that is possible at all.

Browser(s) tried

Arc, Chrome

Editor(s) tried

VS Code

[fregante]

Can you provide a video? The selection works for me

[VOOM108]

This is the typical offset I get:

[fregante]

Are you using grammarly?

Please test it on https://ghosttext.fregante.com/troubleshooting

[VOOM108]

No, that is Language Tool. I turned it off for the test with the troubleshooting-page. The selection has an offset to the top there, too, though less.

[fregante]

So, a couple of notes:

• browser to editor selection is not updated, there's no selectionchange listener
• editor to browser selection is implemented exclusively for raw textarea elements, and only for one selection (not multiple selections)
• editor to browser textarea selection works correctly in my tests (VS Code -> Chrome)

I'd say:

• make sure you're using the official VS Code extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fregante.ghost-text
• try with another editor (e.g. Sublime), it's possible that the selection index is being changed by some other editor plugin you have installed
• what's your OS?
• what's your editor line break setup? Maybe there's a discrepancy there (CR/LF)