Input method support

[tonytonyjan]

This is a dirty fix but at least works. cursor position update also supported.

Use LD_PRELOAD to reimplement gtk_im_context_set_client_window and set im focus in.
use "gdk_region_get_clipbox" to catch the caret position. (It's really difficult to find which function can catch the position....)
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I've tried your method and got the following result:

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$ gcc -shared -o libsublime-imfix.so sublime_imfix.c  `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0` -fPIC
$ LD_PRELOAD=./libsublime-imfix.so sublime-text
ERROR: ld.so: object './libsublime-imfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

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$ uname -ai
Linux tonytonyjan-Latitude-6430U 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is there any message I can give you?

[RadarNyan]

This is a dirty fix but at least works. cursor position update also supported.

Use LD_PRELOAD to reimplement gtk_im_context_set_client_window and set im focus in.
use "gdk_region_get_clipbox" to catch the caret position. (It's really difficult to find which function can catch the position....)
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I tried this on Ubuntu 12.04, it works but only work for FCITX not ibus.
I sure get cursor location update, but there still is some problem (actually a big one) - backspace will erase the text before cursor, not character in IME.

So, I guess I just went back to ibus since it makes me feel better Anyway, great work.

Another question: is it possible to bring this cursor location update feature to Windows version of sublime?
IME works better on Windows version of sublime, the only problem is cursor location update. If you can fix that, it will be really great.

For Sublime Text 2, there was a nice plugin for supporting input method.

Thanks dude, that works perfect!

[Enz0]

For Sublime Text 2, there was a nice plugin for supporting input method.
https://github.com/chikatoike/IMESuppor ... DME_en.org
Now that Sublime Text 3 has threaded plugin system, the plugin no longer works properly, at least in my environment.
Because the plugin hooks the input, there are some side effects like BracketHighlighter becomes unworkable.
Please support the input method correctly, especially with Sublime Text 3 for Windows.

[dmikalova]

I wasn't able to use my compose key at all on Arch Linux running KDE with xim in ST2, I tried scim but it didn't supposed custom compose keys from ~/.XCompose, but I was able to fix this for Linux by changing to scim-uim

To enable this for all GTK apps, put this into your ~/.xprofile after installing scim-uim, and then restart X:

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    GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-scim


Note that there are other ways to do this that make this work for all users on the computer and whatnot.
To run it just for ST2, or test it out without restarting, run this in your preferred console, set it as a bash alias, etc:

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    export GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-scim subl


Compose, and ~/.XCompose should now work.