[TxMt] Re: Bug in enclose selection with multi-key characters using US-International keyboard layout

[Etienne Samson]

Le 18 sept. 2014 à 09:48, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> a écrit :

> On 17 Sep 2014, at 13:11, Eduardo Francos wrote:
> 
>> When using the US-International keyboard layout, if you want to enclose selected text with quotes, single quotes or back-quotes by typing them, the originally selected text is deleted.
> 
> I have both the ISO and ANSI US/international keyboard, and I can type all of the following quotes without using dead keys: ‘…’, “…”, "…", '…', and `…`.

I can confirm that this also happens with the standard French layout with the ` backtick, the selected text just disappear. As the OP says, not a really harmful, significant bug, I just want to confirm that there's an issue.

>> A really insignificant bug, I know :p and I can certainly live with it, so this is mostly for information. It's good to know someone knows it's there :-)
> 
> I fear it would be rather complex to do a workaround for this because we would need to delay overtyping a selection when we detect the user starts a complex input sequence, and for most users I imagine this would be undesired (not seeing the selection immediately overtyped).


A quick fix (IMHO, I'm no expert on the text system) would be to make dead keys be handled as normal keys as soon as you have something selected — the rationale being that if you're actually trying to overtype a missed accent, you wouldn't rewrite a whole bunch of stuff. But there be dragons ;-).

Regards,
Etienne Samson
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