Atomic CRLF sequences

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Hi!

I’m using CodeMirror to display texts that can contain \r\n sequences. I’d like for these \r\n sequences to be atomic but I haven’t figured out the best way to do this.

A few things I tried:

  • Using EditorState.lineSeparator.of("\r\n"): This seems to transform \r\n into \n, which isn’t what I want since I need the \r\n sequences to remain intact.
  • MatchDecorator using the /\r\n/g regexp: This doesn’t work as line breaks aren’t part of the text.

The endgoal I’d like is for the user to be able to type/delete \r\n as if it were a single character, while keeping the original text intact (aka no normalization of newlines).

Would love any ideas on how to achieve this!

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Line separators are automatically atomic—the editor treats them as a single position (they don’t count as 2 units when computing document offsets) and they only show up when you serialize the document to a string (or parse from a string).