🐞 Text binding does not update view

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
swift
Domain
desktop, devtools

Research direction

Start by tracing the SourceEditor binding used in the reproduction and follow how external changes to sourceCode reach the editor view. Reproduce the issue with the provided example, then verify that changing the bound string updates the displayed text without disrupting editor input.

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Description

bug
Description

I noticed that that updating a text state (String), which has a binding to the code edit view, does not update the text view.

To Reproduce

This is how I use the view:

@State var sourceCode = "initial value"

var body: some View {
    SourceEditor(
        $sourceCode,
        language: .swift,
        configuration: SourceEditorConfiguration(
            appearance: .init(
                theme: .dark,
                font: NSFont.monospacedSystemFont(ofSize: 12, weight: .medium),
                wrapLines: false,
            ),
            behavior: .init(indentOption: .spaces(count: 4)),
            peripherals: .init(showMinimap: false)
        ),
        state: $editorState,
        coordinators: [],
    )
}

// Somewhere, I do
sourceCode = "some new string"

The editor still contains "initial value", although sourceCode is "some new string"

Expected Behavior

The code editor should show "some new string"

Version Information

CodeEditSourceEditor: 0.15.2
macOS: 26.5
Xcode: 26.5.0

Additional Context

I have a pull request ready with a fix, but I'm not sure if this is the correct way to do it, because I didn't have time to dive into the implementation of this package, yet.

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