Bug: Columns Layout if first node deletion is incorrect

[ivailop7]

Lexical 0.21

If the columns layout widget is the first node, Select all (or mouse selection of the whole widget)-> Delete, leads to invalid state of the widget. If there's a paragraph before the widget it select all deletes correctly.

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[ivailop7]

@basile-savouret this might be a continuation of the original issue you started fixing with the widget

[etrepum]

This is mostly due to the point normalization in our $selectAll() function, it basically always shrinks selections down to the innermost element or TextNode if there is one. Maybe we could change that to only shrink if there is a TextNode, or only if the container is ParagraphNode, or something like that. The alternative would be to do something around how delete works, but then you run into the ambiguity of "did they mean to select all the text, or also the container?" - the normalization makes these two intents indistinguishable.

[pawangiri]

I just ran into this today. Any workarounds?

[etrepum]

You could override SELECT_ALL_COMMAND and create a selection that includes the whole node without using $selectAll or selection normalization.