quoteSelection

Add selected text to a text area as a markdown quote.

Installation

$ npm install @github/quote-selection

Usage

import quoteSelection from '@github/quote-selection'
quoteSelection(quotableContainer, textarea)

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HTML

<div class="js-quote-selection"><p>Text to quote</p></div>
<textarea class="js-textarea"></textarea>

JS

import quoteSelection from '@github/quote-selection'

document.addEventListener('keydown', function(event) {
  if (event.key === 'r' && !event.metaKey && !event.ctrlKey && !event.altKey) {
    const quoted = quoteSelection(
      document.querySelector('.js-quote-selection'),
      document.querySelector('.js-textarea')
    )
    if (quoted) event.preventDefault()
  }
})

Development

npm install
npm test

License

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.