zulip/zulip-mobile

Wrong cursor placement when choosing from typeahead

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#4,939 opened on Aug 3, 2021

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Description

When the user inserts a typeahead suggestion that already has some message text after it, the cursor doesn't get placed after the suggestion. Instead, it is placed somewhere in the middle of the typeahead suggestion that was selected. This happens for both @ mentions and stream names (#foo).

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Investigate the typeahead component in the mobile codebase, focusing on cursor positioning after selecting a suggestion. Look at the handler for @mention and stream name autocomplete and trace the logic that moves the cursor. Identify where the cursor offset is miscalculated.
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javascript
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mobile
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