insertNodes(): problems with replacement range

[steviesocks]

Description

We're using the following to replace all nodes in an editor as streaming text updates:

const anchor = getStartPoint(editor, []);
const focus = getEndPoint(editor, []);
editor.insertNodes([nodes], { at: {anchor, focus}})

And we're getting a couple strange behaviors.

• consistently adds an extra empty paragraph before the nodes we're inserting
  • (have a hacky solution for this, by just removing it each time)
• when the editor has a list, it seems to inconsistently remove the list nodes, resulting in:
  • a stray bullet point or list number as the last child
  • the whole text gets wrapped in a list

Expected Behavior

getStartPoint and getEndPoint give accurate range and insertNodes replaces all nodes in the range

Environment

"@udecode/plate": "^25.0.1",
"@udecode/plate-autoformat": "^25.0.1",
"@udecode/plate-combobox": "^25.0.1",
"@udecode/plate-dnd": "^25.0.1",
"@udecode/plate-emoji": "^25.0.1",
"@udecode/plate-floating": "^25.0.1",
"@udecode/plate-link": "^25.0.1",
"@udecode/plate-node-id": "^25.0.1",
"slate": "^0.100.0",
"slate-history": "^0.100.0",
"slate-hyperscript": "^0.100.0",
"slate-react": "^0.101.0"

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[12joan]

You can use replaceNodeChildren for this.

[steviesocks]

Thanks @12joan. This helps get rid of those behaviors, but it causes a new problem for us in that it makes all our nodes children of the one parent node (that we replace the children of). Is there a way to select the editor itself as the parent in the at property? Seems like that property only accepts Paths

[12joan]

The path of the editor is [].