Auto select attention block for editing

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/javascript/edit-attention.js b/javascript/edit-attention.js
index 67084e7a..c0d29a74 100644
--- a/javascript/edit-attention.js
+++ b/javascript/edit-attention.js
@@ -9,9 +9,38 @@ addEventListener('keydown', (event) => {
 	let minus = "ArrowDown"

 	if (event.key != plus && event.key != minus) return;

 

-	selectionStart = target.selectionStart;

-	selectionEnd = target.selectionEnd;

-	if(selectionStart == selectionEnd) return;

+	let selectionStart = target.selectionStart;

+	let selectionEnd = target.selectionEnd;

+	// If the user hasn't selected anything, let's select their current parenthesis block

+	if (selectionStart === selectionEnd) {

+		// Find opening parenthesis around current cursor

+		const before = target.value.substring(0, selectionStart);

+		let beforeParen = before.lastIndexOf("(");

+		if (beforeParen == -1) return;

+		let beforeParenClose = before.lastIndexOf(")");

+		while (beforeParenClose !== -1 && beforeParenClose > beforeParen) {

+			beforeParen = before.lastIndexOf("(", beforeParen - 1);

+			beforeParenClose = before.lastIndexOf(")", beforeParenClose - 1);

+		}

+

+		// Find closing parenthesis around current cursor

+		const after = target.value.substring(selectionStart);

+		let afterParen = after.indexOf(")");

+		if (afterParen == -1) return;

+		let afterParenOpen = after.indexOf("(");

+		while (afterParenOpen !== -1 && afterParen > afterParenOpen) {

+			afterParen = after.indexOf(")", afterParen + 1);

+			afterParenOpen = after.indexOf("(", afterParenOpen + 1);

+		}

+		if (beforeParen === -1 || afterParen === -1) return;

+

+		// Set the selection to the text between the parenthesis

+		const parenContent = target.value.substring(beforeParen + 1, selectionStart + afterParen);

+		const lastColon = parenContent.lastIndexOf(":");

+		selectionStart = beforeParen + 1;

+		selectionEnd = selectionStart + lastColon;

+		target.setSelectionRange(selectionStart, selectionEnd);

+	}

 

 	event.preventDefault();