Can't use Input method with autocomplete-plus

[thethreeonee]

When I use input method to enter some text in atom, input method will popup a window to let me choose which charactor to confirm. But after 100ms(autocomplete-plus default value), the autocomplete window popup, and it hide the input method window. So I just can't enter any word.

OS: Mac OS X 10.10.2
Atom: 0.176.0
Autocomplete-plus: 2.0.2
Input Method: Chinese Pinyin IME (Mac OS X preinstalled)

[joefitzgerald]

@MiincGu I'm not sure I've ever entered text using the technique you described (because I only ever write English). Would it be possible to either capture a video / animated gif of this, or do a screen sharing session with us so we can observe it?

[thethreeonee]

Hi,
Here's the video. Hope it can help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAY4W-soaII&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[park9140]

I believe this is a duplicate of #200.

[joefitzgerald]

Yes, it was opened while 200 was closed.

[chrisyip]

I found out there's a compositionstart API for detecting IME input status.

The order that input event fired:

1. keydown
2. compositionstart
3. input
4. keyup
5. compositionend
6. change

Here is a demo, open console and try input something.

Though this order maybe different in real world, but compositionstart is always fired right after keydown. So maybe we can just detect if compositionstart is fired to determine if active autocomplete-plus.

I will go through autocomplete-plus's source code and try to submit a PR in this weekend.

If someone is working on it, please leave a message.

[joefitzgerald]

@chrisyip: please feel free to submit a PR to fix this. None of us have Google IME so it's a little hard for us to reproduce at this time. We do handle native IME correctly, and have a test confirming as such.