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Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor)

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1 Apr 2013LGPL313 min read 1.9M   72.3K   534  
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.Collections.Generic;
using ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.Document;

namespace ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.Editing
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Determines whether the document can be modified.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IReadOnlySectionProvider
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Gets whether insertion is possible at the specified offset.
		/// </summary>
		bool CanInsert(int offset);
		
		/// <summary>
		/// Gets the deletable segments inside the given segment.
		/// </summary>
		/// <remarks>
		/// All segments in the result must be within the given segment, and they must be returned in order
		/// (e.g. if two segments are returned, EndOffset of first segment must be less than StartOffset of second segment).
		/// 
		/// For replacements, the last segment being returned will be replaced with the new text. If an empty list is returned,
		/// no replacement will be done.
		/// </remarks>
		IEnumerable<ISegment> GetDeletableSegments(ISegment segment);
	}
}

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