Element-web: Composer doesn't work with many input methods

Created on 6 Nov 2018 · 21Comments · Source: vector-im/element-web

Input methods (aka IMEs) from various operating systems and keyboard layouts cause problems with Riot. The symptoms include flashing characters, losing focus, misrepresentation of characters, etc.

This is all tracked as an upstream issue: https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/issues/2368

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turt2live

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let the record show that we're solving this by moving away from Slate to a lightweight editor we wrote ourselves called CIDER. Please help us test it by going to riot.im/develop and turning on the new editor in Labs in Settings, and hopefully almost all of these issues are resolved.

ara4n on 16 Sep 2019

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I think I got all of them. Please point out any issues I might have missed.

turt2live on 6 Nov 2018

you missed #7149

mvgorcum on 6 Nov 2018

7149 is a duplicate of another issue on this list.

turt2live on 6 Nov 2018

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Just so you know that I'm now experiencing the same characters problem with macOS 10.14.1, Safari 12.0.1 & the US Intl keymap. Very annoying indeed.

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mthld on 13 Nov 2018

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I can confirm this issue on NixOS, Firefox, and Fcitx with Mozc for Japanese input. Whatever I type is stochastically swallowed and I would sadly say that things are unusable at this point, if I want to type in Japanese I will have to type it in another window and paste it into the Riot web client.

ninjin on 19 Feb 2019

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I have the same problem on macos.

palytoxin on 3 Mar 2019

I'm not sure about the progress that was made here, but I've noticed that typing umlauts is now possible. A new issue however is that I'm often unable to use backspace, or sometimes type at all, unless I restart Riot. The app doesn't freeze up or anything like that, some forms of input just no longer work in the message field.

kiliankoe on 3 Mar 2019

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I have to restart/reload Riot several times daily when it gets itself into a weird state regarding text input 😕 Often this happens after typing German umlauts, suddenly I can't use backspace, or typing doesn't work at all, or text just reappears after deleting it (as shown in the gif). This feels extremely broken.

IMO the message input is doing way too much magic, whatever it's trying to achieve with that. It should just be a basic text field that works.

kiliankoe on 12 Mar 2019

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Sorry for piling ever more comments onto this issue, but I've noticed that I've been invoking cmda + backspace twice to delete an entire message, since it always fails the first time 😕

kiliankoe on 15 Mar 2019

Someone should try to update to the latest version of Slate. The upstream issue isn't fixed but people keep reporting that it is better on the latest versions.

aaronraimist on 24 Mar 2019

@aaronraimist @turt2live When i try to update the Slate to 0.44.12, I got the error :
As of Slate 0.42.0, value object are no longer schema-aware, and the `value.change()` method is no longer available. Use the `editor.change()` method on the new `Editor` controller instead.
Do you have a related upgrade plan?

longfan3 on 3 Apr 2019

I didn't want to open yet another issue, but just wanna ping that input doesn't work beyond the keys input directly with keypress on the keyboard. I can't input Korean and Chinese via ibus, and X compose key doesn't work either.

avoidr on 12 Sep 2019

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ara4n on 16 Sep 2019

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@ara4n I went to riot.im/develop but the issue still persists...

xuhdev on 16 Sep 2019

@ara4n I went to riot.im/develop but the issue still persists...

Sorry to be pedantic, but did you also go to Settings -> Labs, enable the new composer, and reload Riot? (The new composer is not enabled by default yet.)

jryans on 16 Sep 2019

@jryans That works! Thanks!

xuhdev on 16 Sep 2019

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Works! Gonna take a while to beat my input-phobia now :D

avoidr on 16 Sep 2019

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Here is a normal input sequence:

But the behavior in CIDER is:

rixtox on 17 Sep 2019

let the record show that we're solving this by moving away from Slate to a lightweight editor we wrote ourselves called CIDER. Please help us test it by going to riot.im/develop and turning on the new editor in Labs in Settings, and hopefully almost all of these issues are resolved.

Sweet!

The new one seems to work much better from ~2minutes of testing, now i can even paste stuff into the riot.im message-field on Qutebrowser / linux/wayland (sway) without having to open webinspector -> elements -> event listeners -> remove listener on paste, paste my stuff, post, then reload riot.im to make it work for normal messaging again..