editor.getSelectedText() no longer returns entire draft text by default

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Did editor.getSelectedText() behavior change earlier this year?

It used to return the whole draft if there was no current selection.

In March or Feb, it stopped working that way - see conversation at https://forums.getdrafts.com/t/mermaid-diagram/7031

A function that returns all or selected text would be appreciated -

Thanks!

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editor.getSelectedText() has never behaved that way, and shouldn’t. That’s not what you would typically want from a function like that. Here’s two alternatives:

// selection tag works that way...
let s = draft.processTemplate("[[selection]]");

// or
let s = editor.getSelectedRange()[1] > 0 ? editor.getSelectedText() : editor.getText();
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