TextAnchors support anchoring of images in text. A TextAnchor exists as an attribute of text emphasis, and it gets control like a FontReference, through the emphasizeScanner: message. Depending on whether its anchoredMorph is a Morph or a Form, it repositions the morph, or displays the form respectively. The coordination between composition, display and selection can best be understood by browsing the various implementations of placeEmbeddedObject:.

In the morphic world, simply embed any morph in text. In the old world, you can create an image reference using code such as the following.
ParagraphEditor new clipboardTextPut:
(Text string: '*'
attribute: (TextAnchor new anchoredMorph: Form fromUser))
In this case you select a piece of the screen, and it gets anchored to a one-character text in the editor's past buffer. If you then paste into some other text, you will see the image as an embedded image.

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	= Answer whether the receiver and the argument represent the same object. If = is redefined in any subclass, consider also redefining the message hash.
	anchoredMorph
	anchoredMorph:
	couldDeriveFromPrettyPrinting Answer whether the receiver is a kind of attribute that could have been generated by doing polychrome pretty-printing of a method without functional text attributes.
	emphasizeScanner: Subclasses may override to set, eg, font, color, etc
	mayBeExtended A textAnchor is designed to modify only a single character, and therefore must not be extended by the ParagraphEditor's emphasisHere facility