docs(text-editor): document that clear discards pending changes and the flush-first pattern

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What

Documents two facts about clear() that the JSDoc omits, on both
limel-text-editor and its ProseMirror adapter:

• clearing also discards any pending debounced change, so content typed just
  before the call is never reported;
• the pattern for capturing the final content anyway is to flush first:

await editor.flushPendingChanges(); // emits the final content
send(this.boundValue);
await editor.clear();

No behavior change.

Why

clear() silently swallows a pending change, and the only way to learn that
today is reading the implementation. The one in-tree consumer (the AI chat
composer in lime-crm-components) depends on the flush-first pattern for
correctness, but the pattern is not discoverable from the API docs — the next
consumer would have to rediscover it.

Verification

• Docs-only change; text-editor spec 268/268 and e2e 130/130 passing

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified that clearing the editor discards pending debounced change events.
  • Added guidance to flush pending changes before clearing when final content must be delivered.
  • Documented that mirrored editor state may need to be reset after clearing.
  • Clarified that clearing has no effect when the editor is read-only.

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Walkthrough

The PR updates clear() documentation in the ProseMirror adapter and text editor. The documentation explains pending debounced change handling, recommends flushPendingChanges() before clearing, and directs consumers to reset mirrored state.

Changes

Text editor clear documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document clear() pending-change handling src/components/text-editor/prosemirror-adapter/prosemirror-adapter.tsx, src/components/text-editor/text-editor.tsx	The clear() documentation states that pending debounced changes are discarded. It documents flushing changes before clearing and resetting mirrored consumer state. It also retains readonly no-op guidance.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 637d9

The change is intended to preserve a pending empty-document update, but the current implementation may still cancel that update and leave bound consumer state stale; additionally, the regression test may not prove the required debounced behavior. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and validation issues to be addressed.

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Pull request overview

This PR fixes an edge case in the text editor’s ProseMirror adapter where calling clear() on an already-empty editor could previously cancel a pending debounced change('') emission, leaving consumers with a stale non-empty bound value.

Changes:

• Reorders clear() logic so the “already empty” check happens before canceling any pending debounced change.
• Adds an e2e test covering the “user clears content, then consumer calls clear() within the debounce window” scenario.

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File	Description
src/components/text-editor/prosemirror-adapter/prosemirror-adapter.tsx	Reorders clear() to preserve pending empty debounced change when editor content is already empty.
src/components/text-editor/text-editor.e2e.tsx	Adds e2e coverage for the pending-empty-change behavior when clear() is called on an already-empty editor.

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Documentation has been published to https://lundalogik.github.io/lime-elements/versions/PR-4174/

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Suppressed comments (2)

src/components/text-editor/prosemirror-adapter/prosemirror-adapter.tsx:254

• The inline comment implies a pending debounced change always exists when the editor is already empty, but clear() can be called with changeWaiting === false. Wording it conditionally avoids misleading future readers about the invariant.

        if (currentContent === '') {
            // A pending change already reflects this empty content; let it
            // emit so consumers still learn the document became empty.
            return;

src/components/text-editor/text-editor.e2e.tsx:363

• This test can pass even if the debounced empty change('') already fired before root.clear() is called, which would no longer verify the intended regression (calling clear() while the empty change is still pending). Add an assertion that no change has been emitted yet before invoking clear().

            editor.focus();
            document.execCommand('selectAll');
            document.execCommand('delete');
            await vi.waitFor(() => {
                expect(editor.textContent).toBe('');
            });

            await root.clear();
            await sleep(DEBOUNCE_WAIT);

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In `@src/components/text-editor/text-editor.e2e.tsx`:
- Around line 561-564: Update the clear() test around root.clear() and changes
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In `@src/components/text-editor/prosemirror-adapter/prosemirror-adapter.tsx`:
- Around line 239-243: The clear() implementation in the ProseMirror adapter
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changes, preserving a pending change('') in that case; update its JSDoc
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[john-traas]

Superseded by #4239, which carries the same docs-only commit on a clean branch. The behavior change originally proposed here was dropped: the pending-change discard in clear() is deliberate (#4144), and the flush-first pattern makes it a non-issue for consumers.