Selections

Component/part description
Make text selection of transcription
To look into https://github.com/timdown/rangy
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection​
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Hyperaudio, palestinian remix
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How to do text selection for highlight paper cuts. Currently in transcription show it traverse the DOM to update those.
Eg see selecting words function. That recognises uses selection.
​https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2/blob/paperedit/lib/app/views/transcription_view.js#L488​
And this function to update the dom with selections.
​https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2/blob/paperedit/lib/app/views/transcription_view.js#L91
There might be a better way to do this? Using rangy ?

Current implementation
What needs refactoring

Last modified 4yr ago