Catching blot clicks (on selection-change) in readonly editor?

I’ve got a Blot where I catch clicks using on('selection-change') and offer to change that blot with a menu. I’d now like to make the editor readonly, apart from changes made by the clicks on those blots. But if it’s readonly, on('selection-change') is never hit, since source === "user".

You can “reproduce” this by doing quill.disable() on quilljs.com and trying to edit a link, which also seems to use on('selection-change').

Is there a way to have a “readonly-light”, where users can’t modify text by typing, but they can by clicking on blots? I see there is this function

https://github.com/quilljs/quill/blob/131db2b98d1fcabf8586ecd1b493345ea2bb1002/core/quill.js#L431

which never emits anything if the editor is disabled and source is user, so I’m guessing there’s nothing implemented to do what I want using selection-change. But maybe there’s a different way I could get what I want?

[jhchen]

If your goal is to find the blot would something like this work:

static create() {
  let node = super.create();
  node.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
    // e.target should always be node since it is attached to node
    let blot = Quill.find(node);
    // Do what you want with blot
  });
  // ...
}

[unhammer]

I was unsure if just the blot element would have enough info to safely remove/unwrap the blot, or change the text contents in it, but after looking through https://github.com/quilljs/parchment/#blots I see I can use Quill.find(node).offset(quill.scroll) to get the the beginning/offset, and Quill.find(node).length()) to get the length, so I believe that gives me all the information I need 😃

Thanks! I’ll close this then; using a normal DOM click event seems like a better solution than a “partial readonly” state.