1197851 - handle the various post-suggestion-selection scenarios better

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Bug 1182844 adds a space after a word is selected from the suggestion list.

However, we can do even better.

From comment 11 in bug 1182844:

(In reply to Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (slow response; please ni? to queue) from comment #10)
> BTW, what if the user intend to end the sentence (with a period) rather than
> typing another word? iOS employs some logic to automatically replace the
> inserted space to period in this case and I wonder if that's what we should
> implement altogether.

Here are more details on how iOS and Android handle autocomplete. Android's behavior is smarter than iOS, but its implementation has more corner cases. In the following examples, I use the '|' character to represent the cursor position (to make the space characters easier to see when present).

On iOS:

- "Goo" is autocompleted to "Good |"
- autocompleted "Good |" + 'm' = "Good m|"
- autocompleted "Good |" + ' ' = "Good |" (new space is ignored or overwrites appended space)
- autocompleted "Good |" + '.' = "Good.|" (period overwrites appended space)
- autocompleted "Good |" + '.' + 'm' = "Good.m|"

On Android:

- "Goo" is autocompleted to "Good|"
- autocompleted "Good|" + 'm' = "Good m|"
- autocompleted "Good|" + ' ' = "Good |"
- autocompleted "Good|" + '.' = "Good.|"
- autocompleted "Good|" + '.' + 'm' = "Good. M|"

On Firefox OS 2.5 today,

- "Goo" is autocompleted to "Good|"
- autocompleted "Good|" + 'm' = "Goodm|"
- autocompleted "Good|" + ' ' = "Good |"
- autocompleted "Good|" + '.' = "Good.|"
- autocompleted "Good|" + '.' + 'm' = "Good.m|"

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

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