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Selection operations

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Selection operations

Read the editor's current selection as a portable, addressable target.

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selection.currentRead the editor's current selection as a portable SelectionInfo with a text-anchored TextTarget. Primitive for building custom comments UIs, floating toolbars, and other selection-driven components without reaching into ProseMirror internals.read

Sections operations

Section structure and page-setup operations.

Styles operations

Document-level stylesheet mutations (docDefaults, style definitions).