added function deleteRegion to delete text between two points

Change-Id: I35deb6b24fb7ba61ac5c4e89b3804aa852e56d02
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos <nicolas@kdab.com>

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/objects/basetexteditor.cpp b/objects/basetexteditor.cpp
index 747b20e..67fdda5 100644
--- a/objects/basetexteditor.cpp
+++ b/objects/basetexteditor.cpp
@@ -487,6 +487,20 @@ bool BaseTextEditor::findRegexp(const QString &regexp, bool backward, bool caseS
     return true;
 }
 
+void BaseTextEditor::deleteRegion(const Position &from, const Position &to)
+{
+    QPointer<Mark> start = createMark();
+    gotoPosition(from);
+    int fromPos = nativePosition();
+    gotoPosition(to);
+    int toPos = nativePosition();
+    QTextCursor cursor( textEditorWidget()->document());
+    cursor.setPosition(fromPos);
+    cursor.setPosition(toPos, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor);
+    cursor.removeSelectedText();
+    gotoMark(start);
+}
+
 void BaseTextEditor::indent()
 {
     if (textEditorWidget())
diff --git a/objects/basetexteditor.h b/objects/basetexteditor.h
index f5101c4..e2aee53 100644
--- a/objects/basetexteditor.h
+++ b/objects/basetexteditor.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 
 #include "texteditor.h"
 #include <QTextDocument>
+#include "utils/position.h"
 
 namespace TextEditor {
     class BaseTextEditor;
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ public slots:
     bool find(const QString& text, bool backward = false, bool caseSensitively = false, bool wholeWords = false);
     bool findRegexp(const QString& regexp, bool backward = false, bool caseSensitively = false, bool wholeWords = false);
     void indent();
+    void deleteRegion( const Position& from, const Position& to);
 
 private:
     QTextDocument::FindFlags flags(bool backward, bool caseSensitively, bool wholeWords) const;