1 files changed, 7 insertions, 86 deletions

diff --git a/lib/scripts/textselection.js b/lib/scripts/textselection.js
index 818d5d950..16874ba2b 100644
--- a/lib/scripts/textselection.js
+++ b/lib/scripts/textselection.js
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ function selection_class(){
     this.start     = 0;
     this.end       = 0;
     this.obj       = null;
-    this.rangeCopy = null;
     this.scroll    = 0;
     this.fix       = 0;
 
@@ -37,82 +36,11 @@ function selection_class(){
 function DWgetSelection(textArea) {
     var sel = new selection_class();
 
-    sel.obj   = textArea;
-    sel.start = textArea.value.length;
-    sel.end   = textArea.value.length;
     textArea.focus();
-    if(document.getSelection) {          // Mozilla et al.
-        sel.start  = textArea.selectionStart;
-        sel.end    = textArea.selectionEnd;
-        sel.scroll = textArea.scrollTop;
-    } else if(document.selection) {      // MSIE
-        /*
-         * This huge lump of code is neccessary to work around two MSIE bugs:
-         *
-         * 1. Selections trim newlines at the end of the code
-         * 2. Selections count newlines as two characters
-         */
-
-        // The current selection
-        sel.rangeCopy = document.selection.createRange().duplicate();
-        if (textArea.tagName === 'INPUT')  {
-            var before_range = textArea.createTextRange();
-            before_range.expand('textedit');                       // Selects all the text
-        } else {
-            var before_range = document.body.createTextRange();
-            before_range.moveToElementText(textArea);              // Selects all the text
-        }
-        before_range.setEndPoint("EndToStart", sel.rangeCopy);     // Moves the end where we need it
-
-        var before_finished = false, selection_finished = false;
-        var before_text, selection_text;
-        // Load the text values we need to compare
-        before_text  = before_range.text;
-        selection_text = sel.rangeCopy.text;
-
-        sel.start = before_text.length;
-        sel.end   = sel.start + selection_text.length;
-
-        // Check each range for trimmed newlines by shrinking the range by 1 character and seeing
-        // if the text property has changed.  If it has not changed then we know that IE has trimmed
-        // a \r\n from the end.
-        do {
-            if (!before_finished) {
-                if (before_range.compareEndPoints("StartToEnd", before_range) == 0) {
-                    before_finished = true;
-                } else {
-                    before_range.moveEnd("character", -1);
-                    if (before_range.text == before_text) {
-                        sel.start += 2;
-                        sel.end += 2;
-                    } else {
-                        before_finished = true;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            if (!selection_finished) {
-                if (sel.rangeCopy.compareEndPoints("StartToEnd", sel.rangeCopy) == 0) {
-                    selection_finished = true;
-                } else {
-                    sel.rangeCopy.moveEnd("character", -1);
-                    if (sel.rangeCopy.text == selection_text) {
-                        sel.end += 2;
-                    } else {
-                        selection_finished = true;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        } while ((!before_finished || !selection_finished));
-
-        // count number of newlines in str to work around stupid IE selection bug
-        var countNL = function(str) {
-            var m = str.split("\r\n");
-            if (!m || !m.length) return 0;
-            return m.length-1;
-        };
-        sel.fix = countNL(sel.obj.value.substring(0,sel.start));
-
-    }
+    sel.obj   = textArea;
+    sel.start  = textArea.selectionStart;
+    sel.end    = textArea.selectionEnd;
+    sel.scroll = textArea.scrollTop;
     return sel;
 }
 
@@ -127,16 +55,8 @@ function DWgetSelection(textArea) {
  * @param {selection_class} selection  a selection object as returned by DWgetSelection()
  */
 function DWsetSelection(selection){
-    if(document.getSelection){ // FF
-        // what a pleasure in FF ;)
-        selection.obj.setSelectionRange(selection.start,selection.end);
-        if(selection.scroll) selection.obj.scrollTop = selection.scroll;
-    } else if(document.selection) { // IE
-        selection.rangeCopy.collapse(true);
-        selection.rangeCopy.moveStart('character',selection.start - selection.fix);
-        selection.rangeCopy.moveEnd('character',selection.end - selection.start);
-        selection.rangeCopy.select();
-    }
+    selection.obj.setSelectionRange(selection.start, selection.end);
+    if(selection.scroll) selection.obj.scrollTop = selection.scroll;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -166,6 +86,7 @@ function pasteText(selection,text,opts){
         selection.end = selection.start + text.length;
     }
 
+
     // modify the new selection if wanted
     if(opts.startofs) selection.start += opts.startofs;
     if(opts.endofs)   selection.end   -= opts.endofs;