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Can´t get it to work with docs.google.com #71

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bdiebold opened this issue Dec 25, 2020 · 6 comments · Fixed by #72
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Can´t get it to work with docs.google.com #71

bdiebold opened this issue Dec 25, 2020 · 6 comments · Fixed by #72

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@bdiebold
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Thanks for your awesome spoon - using it in a lot of apps.

Unfortunately, I have not yet managed to get it run with google docs.
Whenever i enter normal mode, either it does not recognize further keystrokes or switches automatically back to insert mode.

Any idea - or is this a general problem ?
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dbalatero commented Dec 25, 2020 •
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Hey @bdiebold,

There are a lot of problems with rich input fields like Google Docs. What should be happening is that you enter fallback Vim mode, but it appears that it is actually trying to use the accessibility API + advanced mode here.

It's very odd because it's doing the right thing on my machine. Can you git pull the latest code for the plugin and reload Hammerspoon?

This is the logic that determines whether to try to use advanced mode:

VimMode.spoon/lib/accessibility_buffer.lua

Lines 137 to 145 in f1c740c

function AccessibilityBuffer:isValid()
if self:isBannedApp() then return false end
if not self:getCurrentElement() then return false end
if not self:getSelectionRange() then return false end
if not self:isInTextField() then return false end
if self:isRichTextField() then return false end
return true
end

It's possible this detection is broken/not complete in all cases:

VimMode.spoon/lib/utils/ax.lua

Lines 13 to 27 in f1c740c

axUtils.isRichTextField = function(element)
-- If the current element has any children typically it means there
-- are fancy-ass things in the input element like images, complex HTML,
-- etc.
--
-- from observation, plain text inputs/textareas do not seem to have
-- children.
if not element then return false end
local children = element:attributeValue("AXChildren")
if not children then return false end
return #children > 0
end

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Would something like a URL list be handy?

You could set up URL regexes to set which mode this plugin operates in?

I can get the current URL in Chrome with

tell application "Google Chrome" to return URL of active tab of front window

Safari with

tell application "Safari" to return URL of current tab of window 1

And Firefox appears to just be blowing it:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516502

@dbalatero dbalatero mentioned this issue Dec 28, 2020
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d8b887ab-63f8-4e62-9966-d6e02ed906ff commented Feb 4, 2021 •
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Same here. Exits normal after one keystroke in both docs.google.com and Gmail compose.

10.15.7 / Chrome 88.0.4324.96

diff --git a/lib/vim.lua b/lib/vim.lua
index 9237d4e..9db6eb0 100644
--- a/lib/vim.lua
+++ b/lib/vim.lua
@@ -307,7 +307,8 @@ function VimMode:exitModalAsync()
 end

 function VimMode:canUseAdvancedMode()
-  return AccessibilityBuffer:new(self):isValid()
+  --return AccessibilityBuffer:new(self):isValid()
+  return false
 end

@dbalatero dbalatero reopened this Feb 5, 2021
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Does this work for you if you enforce fallback mode for docs.google.com as outlined here?
https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon#enforce-fallback-mode-with-url-patterns

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I apologize for the inconsistencies, apps, particularly browsers, have some pretty wild behavior that's really hard to tame easily.

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Does this work for you if you enforce fallback mode for docs.google.com as outlined here?
https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon#enforce-fallback-mode-with-url-patterns
No

It does work—albeit intermittently—in a freshly-created Chrome profile. Same for a page with just <html><body><textarea></textarea></body></html>.

Thanks for looking into it

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