Open sgschantz opened 11 months ago
Also seeing this with the Atom editor
There appears to be a fix for this by avoiding queing a backspace event when the event that triggers the generated backspace happens to also be a backspace, but only for certain non-compliant apps: Google Docs running on Chrome and Atom Editor. Suppressing the backspace event for Texstudio in this scenario will result in no backspace at all instead of an excess backspace.
So the only solution appears to require creating a separate list of non-compliant apps just for this scenario. There is definitely no way to detect this behavior while it is happening.
Given Atom Editor is open source (albeit effectively dead!), we should be able to trace the entire sequence of events there. (Does the same issue arise with VSCode?)
It'd be interesting to do the same under Chrome / Chromium and Google Docs -- but Google Docs is not open of course.
https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/blink/renderer/core/editing/state_machines/backspace_state_machine.cc?q=backspace&ss=chromium is interesting reading.
Moving to 18 because there is little time remaiming in 17, and this is limited to some legacy apps.
Describe the bug
When typing in Google Docs with the Kenya (BTL) keyboard, backspacing over a composed characters causes the unaccented character to replace the accented/composed character AND the previous character.
Reproduce the bug
Type:b^u Output: bû Type: backspace Output: u
Expected behavior
Type:b^u Output: bû Type: backspace Output: bu
Related issues
No response
Keyman apps
Keyman version
17
Operating system
No response
Device
No response
Target application
Google Docs running in Google Chrome
Browser
No response
Keyboard name
Kenya (BTL)
Keyboard version
No response
Language name
No response
Additional context
No response