`window.activeTextEditor` has the wrong type

[joneugster]

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question and I don't fully understand what I'm doing.

But, with import { window } from 'vscode' if I look at window.activeTextEditor.selection it has the following type

Object { _start: {…}, _end: {…}, _anchor: {…}, _active: {…} }
  _active: Object { _line: 0, _character: 0 }
  _anchor: Object { _line: 0, _character: 0 }
  _end: Object { _line: 0, _character: 0 }
  _start: Object { _line: 0, _character: 0 }
<prototype>: Object { … }

whereas in VSCode, it seems all of these do not have the leading underscore, compare to the defined TextEditor interface in @types/vscode. Why is this difference?

[CGNonofr]

You're comparing the implementation details with the interface. There is no supposed difference as the exact same code is used in both places.

Are you encountering any issue?

[joneugster]

Hmm, I am experiencing issues, but I think that was a complete misjudgment, and had nothing to do with the _character.

I don't think I can minimalise this easily, but I know have a code-snippet that looks like this:

range: {
    // start: selection.start, // This fails...
    // end: selection.end,
    start: {line: selection.start.line, character: selection.start.character}, // this succeeds... `selection.start._character` also suceeded
    end: {line: selection.end.line, character: selection.end.character}
},

I don't understand why the latter works, but I don't think it has anything to do with this package.

Sorry for the noise and thanks for the fast answer!