Pure Elm rich text editor

[rupert]

@lucamug

I tried it, the browser detect me typing Japanese and shows the list of Japanese words, but the selection doesn’t work. Maybe there is some event that the editor should be listening to and get some text from that…

I doubt there is a way to achieve that with pure Elm, you really need to use IME. We discussed this here:

Text Editing Part 3/3 Keyboard Input and Select/Copy/Paste

The final part in this 3 part mini-series on text editing in Elm. Now I want to figure out what is the best way of capturing input. So far, I captured keyboard events with onKeydown and processed those in Elm. That actually seems to work very well for my standard layout GB-English keyboard, and as an English speaking only person, I must admit a gross level of ignorance about IME, non-English keyboards and so on. Full unicode support, for example, is probably too big a topic for this spike - get…

I found these articles to be informative around some on the difficulties of handling input:

https://codemirror.net/doc/internals.html

ContentEditable — The Good, the Bad and the Ugly