selectText() on TextEditor select wrong text when tabs are used for indention

[openscript]

If tabs are used in a file, where selectText() is executed, the cursor will stop before the text, which should be selected. The reason for this, could be that columns and coordinates don't correspond in VSCode:

https://github.com/webdriverio-community/wdio-vscode-service/blob/88c7a47d041b126e84ae1703d04bc13d7648e4bf/src/pageobjects/editor/TextEditor.ts#L344C44-L344C50

If the tab size is two moving one tab to the right increases the column count by two.

[christian-bromann]

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[openscript]

@christian-bromann I'm happy to fix this, but what would be the right way to do it?

I've been thinking if we can just read each character at the cursor and compare it to the to be selected text until it matches?

[seanpoulter]

I don't think we know the right way to solve this @openscript. What are our options? You've already suggested one. I can think of another option to increment by the size of a tab if we find one. We should be able to check the TextEditorOptions.

I'm also curious what test cases we'd want to cover. I'm fairly confidence searching for whitespace at the end of a sentence won't work as expected due to a .trim(). 🤔

• Spaces
• Tabs (size 4)
• A mix of spaces and tabs
• Searching for text with trailing spaces at the end of the line (:bug:?)