Element-web: Using BEPO keyboard layout, inserting non-breakable space moves cursor at beginning of line

[OlivierNicole]

Description

Pressing Shift + space during typing moves the cursor at beginning of the line. This is a problem for those of us, like me, who use Shift+space to insert a non-breaking space. The “bépo” keyboard layout encourages this and it is very hard to lose the habit.

Moreover, I don't understand whether this cursor move is a bug or a feature.

Edit: It only happens when using Shift+space in the bépo layout (inserting a non-breakable space using the Compose key doesn't trigger this behaviour). The cursor must be at the end of the text being typed, otherwise it doesn't happen.

Steps to reproduce

• In Riot-web, try pressing Shift+space while typing a message.

Version information

• Platform: web, but also Riot-desktop 0.15.4
• Browser: Firefox 60.0.1
• OS: Arch Linux

[t3chguy]

for me shift+space just inserts a space
so might be something electron-on-linux related

[Half-Shot]

Checked Electron Linux and I get the same result as @t3chguy. Sounds environment specific to me.

The “bépo” keyboard layout encourages this and it is very hard to lose the habit.

I'd have thought that Electron would follow keyboard layouts :/

[OlivierNicole]

Indeed, I just checked, this only happens with the Bépo keyboard layout. When inserting a non-breakable space using the Compose key this behaviour doesn't show.

[lampholder]

Hopefully this will be fixed incidentally when the new slate.js composer lands.

[OlivierNicole]

@lampholder Do you have any idea where the problem is from? Is it in Electron? So I know which people to let know about this.

[ArchangeGabriel]

I’m on Linux, using bépo as well, and I don’t have this issue.

[OlivierNicole]

@ArchangeGabriel Well, I'm confused. I have this issue on two different operating systems (namely Arch and Ubuntu).

[hidrarga]

I also have this issue on OpenSUSE 42.3

[ArchangeGabriel]

What input method do you use? (BTW, I’m on Arch as well)

[hidrarga]

This bug seems to be fixed for me :) (Riot web v0.17, OpenSUSE 42.3)

[turt2live]

@OlivierNicole are you still seeing this on recent versions of Riot (0.17 or higher)?

[OlivierNicole]

Hi, sorry @ArchangeGabriel for not replying.
@turt2live This is fixed for me as well no 0.17!

[turt2live]

Awesome! Thank you. Closing as magically fixed then :)