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Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor)

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AvalonEdit is an extensible Open-Source text editor with support for syntax highlighting and folding.
// Copyright (c) AlphaSierraPapa for the SharpDevelop Team (for details please see \doc\copyright.txt)
// This code is distributed under the GNU LGPL (for details please see \doc\license.txt)

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.Document;
using ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.Utils;

namespace ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.Editing
{
	/// <summary>
	/// <see cref="IReadOnlySectionProvider"/> that has no read-only sections; all text is editable.
	/// </summary>
	sealed class NoReadOnlySections : IReadOnlySectionProvider
	{
		public static readonly NoReadOnlySections Instance = new NoReadOnlySections();
		
		public bool CanInsert(int offset)
		{
			return true;
		}
		
		public IEnumerable<ISegment> GetDeletableSegments(ISegment segment)
		{
			if (segment == null)
				throw new ArgumentNullException("segment");
			// the segment is always deletable
			return ExtensionMethods.Sequence(segment);
		}
	}
	
	/// <summary>
	/// <see cref="IReadOnlySectionProvider"/> that completely disables editing.
	/// </summary>
	sealed class ReadOnlyDocument : IReadOnlySectionProvider
	{
		public static readonly ReadOnlyDocument Instance = new ReadOnlyDocument();
		
		public bool CanInsert(int offset)
		{
			return false;
		}
		
		public IEnumerable<ISegment> GetDeletableSegments(ISegment segment)
		{
			return Enumerable.Empty<ISegment>();
		}
	}
}

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