Is there a way to set the selected text to bold or italic ?
As far as I can see, you can only set the font to the whole document.
What I would like to do is select a single phrase in a sentence and set it to italic only.

From what I understand, the Gambas code editor is made from this component but if this is the case then
it seems a lot of the functionality is missing from the user control.

 there is TextEditor.HighlightString(sText)

that will highlight any and all strings matching the search

but then selecting text highlights it anyway.

for texteditor it's a no.

RichText will do html <b>

texteditor has Highlighting with eval.highlight and TextHighlighting classes, kinda complicated but i figured it out for the shell highlighting i did.