title: Clearing a multiline EditText
body: <p>I am trying to clear a multiline EditText field inside the OnEditorActionListener.onEditorAction method. </p>
  
  <p>But using any of the obvious ways i.e.</p>
  
  <pre><code>((EditText) view).getEditableText().clear();
  ((EditText) view).getEditableText().clearSpans(); 
  ((EditText) view).setText("");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>only clears the visible characters - leaving the the newlines in the field (which then have to be manually deleted).</p>
  
  <p>Is there way to 'completely' clear a multiline EditText field ? (or at least - does anybody know why the above don't work ?)</p>