When to use SelectionRange in Selections

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I was working on editing of hyperlinks and made a command that does a removeMark followed by an addMark. For positions of the Selection I use Selection.$from.pos and Selection.$to.pos.

However, in prosemirror-commands I see that the toggleMark function is using Selection.ranges for this. Although I have never seen Selection.ranges.length being more than 1. Is this ever possible for a TextSelection?

It is better to be on the safe side and always use Selection.ranges?

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No, but for custom selections, like the cell selection in the tables plugin, it is. So if this is for a local setup and you know you won’t use such selections, it’s okay to just treat selection as a single range, but to be general, you might as well iterate over the ranges.

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Tx. for the explanation! Now I also understand the idea behind multiple ranges.