Function prepareSelectAllHack

src/codemirror.js:1509–1521

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      // this adds a zero-width space so that we can later check whether
      // it got selected.
      function prepareSelectAllHack() {
        if (te.selectionStart != null) {
          var selected = cm.somethingSelected();
          var extval = "\u200b" + (selected ? te.value : "");
          te.value = "\u21da"; // Used to catch context-menu undo
          te.value = extval;
          input.prevInput = selected ? "" : "\u200b";
          te.selectionStart = 1; te.selectionEnd = extval.length;
          // Re-set this, in case some other handler touched the
          // selection in the meantime.
          display.selForContextMenu = cm.doc.sel;
        }
      }
      function rehide() {
        input.contextMenuPending = false;
        input.wrapper.style.cssText = oldWrapperCSS