Highlight Text Programmatically Between Two Indices

[Scott]

I am using the kendo editor and I am wondering if there is a way to highlight the text programmatically. I know that I can use:

editor.exec("backColor", "#FFFFFF");

and this will highlight the selected text, but I want to highlight between two markers in the document automatically. Is there a way I can maybe set editor.selectionText = "text I want to highlight" or pass in some kind of index to editor.exec("backColor"). Right now I am getting around this problem by surrounding the text with a div but that creates its own problems.