How to get text position from mouse click?

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So I want to make a word editor style app and textedit does not support text formatting. The RichTextLabel supports BB-code, but you can't edit it. The only thing I think I need to make the RichTextLabel into a custom textedit is to be able to place the cursor where I click. I know this should be possible because the engine gets the information when you select text, right? How do I get the position in the text from cursor click, even when I have a bunch of formatting?

Godot version 3.5 or 4
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You're probably better off using a Textedit control.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_textedit.html

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Textedit does not let you format the text like having bold text or different fonts or other effects that RichTextLabel lets you do.

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