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Qt5's documentation doesn't mention that QPlainTextEdit has setText(QString) like QTextEdit does. But, I don't think it's impossible. The only way I found is to use QTextDocument which can has setPlainText(const QString& text). So I have to do this:

plain_text_edit->setDocument(text_document);

The problem is text_document should be a pointer. Not like QTextEdit's setText which can take a local variable as it's parameter. So, is there anyway to do setText like to QPlainTextEdit?

Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica
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It's very simple, just get the current document and set its text:

plain_text_edit->document()->setPlainText(text);

Alternative way, just call this method:

plain_text_edit->setPlainText(text);

You could also use text cursor of the editor in many ways to achieve this, most simply by selecting entire existing text (assuming the editor is not empty), then doing plain_text_edit->TextCursor().insertText(text); (which replaces currently selected text with usual paste semantics), but for the simple case of replacing all text, that's overcomplicated.

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