Mentions dont show up when I try to use quill.getText()

[alexbennycodes]

adding the mentions do get added to the quill editor
but when I try to display the text using quill.getText(), it doesn't show the mentions

[angelaki]

Any chance this behavior can be added, soon? I'd help / do it myself, but I'm a complete quill-rookie. So no idea where to start. I guess it would be cool, if a transform-function could be passed (how to translate these mentions to pure text), by default null. So the current behavior won't change / it is not a breaking change.

[angelaki]

I just checked the editors getText() method and it seams like that's something, mention can't control:

  getText(index: number, length: number): string {
    return this.getContents(index, length)
      .filter(op => typeof op.insert === 'string')
      .map(op => op.insert)
      .join('');
  }

But since it's quite easy, I've created my own getText-method, respecting mentions:

quill.getContent().ops
    .filter(op => typeof op.insert === 'string' || op.insert?.mention instanceof DOMStringMap)
    .map(op => typeof op.insert === 'string' ? op.insert : `$$${op.insert.mention.id}`)
    .join('');

Even sexier, you can just override the prototype:

Quill.prototype.getText = function (this: any, index: number, length: number): string {
    return this.getContents(index, length)
        .filter(op => typeof op.insert === 'string' || op.insert?.mention instanceof DOMStringMap)
        .map(op => typeof op.insert === 'string' ? op.insert : `$$${op.insert.mention.id}`)
        .join('');
};

Hope this solution is useful for somebody out there.