Type Definition yrs::Text

pub type Text = Text;

A shared data type used for collaborative text editing. It enables multiple users to add and remove chunks of text in efficient manner. This type is internally represented as a mutable double-linked list of text chunks - an optimization occurs during ytransaction_commit, which allows to squash multiple consecutively inserted characters together as a single chunk of text even between transaction boundaries in order to preserve more efficient memory model.

YText structure internally uses UTF-8 encoding and its length is described in a number of bytes rather than individual characters (a single UTF-8 code point can consist of many bytes).

Like all Yrs shared data types, YText is resistant to the problem of interleaving (situation when characters inserted one after another may interleave with other peers concurrent inserts after merging all updates together). In case of Yrs conflict resolution is solved by using unique document id to determine correct and consistent ordering.