cursor position about ictextview HOT 3 CLOSED

I think it would be better to position it at the end of the found range. That way the user can just hit the 'backspace' key to delete text (that's the most common scenario). Don't you agree?

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yes, it makes sense

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I just had a look into this: while it's indeed possible to do this programmatically within ICTextView, it actually doesn't have the expected results. I'll describe a common scenario: when you search for a match, you're likely typing text into a UISearchBar, UITextField or another UITextView, meaning ICTextView is not the first responder (and the cursor is thereby not shown).

When you hit the "search" button, ICTextView scrolls and highlights the relevant results, but whenever the user taps into it (in order to make the cursor appear), the cursor is placed depending on where the tap event occurred, invalidating any previous automatic cursor placement.

This would probably work if ICTextView automatically became first responder whenever a search is performed, but then the user would lose the ability to perform multiple subsequent searches, not to mention that it's generally bad practice for controls to automatically get focus.

Furthermore, setting the cursor position means calling setSelectedTextRange: or setSelectedRange:, which are extremely inefficient under iOS 6.x and older (they tend to block the UI thread when UITextView is handling a lot of text).

You can see this is not a very nice outcome in any case. If you need this, you may have luck by playing around with setSelectedRange: and ICTextView's rangeOfFoundString property, maybe even with the UIScrollViewDelegate methods, though again you'd have to provide your own workaround to user generated touch events.

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