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🔎 Reading the Selection

How one app reads the text you highlighted in a completely different app

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01How can Flint read the text you selected inside a completely different app?
02What is the path to the current selection through the Accessibility API?
03Why do some apps — many Chromium- and Electron-based ones — not expose selected text through Accessibility?
04When AX can't read the selection, Flint's fallback is a Cmd+C probe. Why is it called 'reversible'?
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