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A mark represents a floating position somewhere in the contents of a text widget.
You handle each mark by giving it a name. This name can be any string that doesn't include whitespace or periods.
There are two special marks. tk.INSERT
is the current position of the insertion cursor, and
tk.CURRENT
is the position closest to the
mouse cursor.
Marks float along with the adjacent content. If you modify text somewhere away from a mark, the mark stays at the same position relative to its immediate neighbors.
Marks have a property called
gravity that controls what happens
when you insert text at a mark. The default gravity is
tk.RIGHT
, which means that when new text is
inserted at that mark, the mark stays after the end of the
new text. If you set the gravity of a mark to tk.LEFT
(using the text widget's .mark_gravity()
method), the mark will stay at a
position just before text newly inserted at that mark.
Deleting the text all around a mark does not remove
the mark. If you want to remove a mark, use the
.mark_unset()
method on the text
widget.
Refer to Section 24.8, “Methods on Text
widgets”, below, to see
how to use marks.