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  • Typing in a textarea results in text appearing and jumping around

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When typing into a textarea, I will randomly see text appear and disappear as I'm typing. It even seems to grab text from earlier in the textarea and briefly move it to the current cursor, then jump back to where it was as I keep typing.

If I ignore it and keep typing, my text ends up okay, but it's very annoying

I've also attached a video. It is not site-specific, but it does seem to get more pronounced the more text I have typed. It's done this to me in Github, gitlab, and dozens of other sites. The only extension I have installed is 1Password. (fun fact, it's doing it to me right now as I'm typing this bug report out).

I just updated Orion RC this morning, but it has been doing this prior to that as well. It's not new to the new version.

I expect that as I'm typing in a textarea, the input remains stable.

ersion 0.99.127.3.2-rc (WebKit 619.1.11.111.2)

Sonoma (14)

    7 days later

    Not sure where the auto completion is actually coming from as it is not present in Safari. However, as great as it is, it mixes the text as shown in the video.

    Just visit this website and enter a similar text. Acutally it even happens just now in the bug report form.

    https://onecompiler.com/html/42g4j2wps

    • I guess from seeing the video this is clear.

    0.99.127.3.3-rc

    Sonoma (14)

      Merged 2 posts from Text autocompletion messes with text.

        @vlad This is killing me too. It took me several weeks to figure out what was making the text jump around, and then I decided to check here before posting.
        It's really brutal, even on this site. When a word is suggested, it puts it in the wrong place initially.
        I can create a video if you wish.

        • Vlad replied to this.
          9 days later

          TCat Steps to reproduce frrom a clean new orion profile, with a video, would be amazing.

              11 days later

              There are a few examples in this video, recorded in this form on this board so you'd know the provenance of the editor. I got it to stick near the end.

              • Brand new profile, created just for this test
              • Version 0.99.127.3.4-rc (WebKit 619.1.11.111.2)
              • Build date Jul 2 2024
              • MacBook Pro (macOS Sonoma 14.5 build 23F79)

                4 days later

                This bug only happens when the user has Show inline predictive text enabled in macOS input settings:

                You can disable that setting while waiting for it to be fixed in a future release.

                  Recently updated to Version 0.99.128-beta (WebKit 619.1.11.111.2), and I can't find anything in the settings, but is there some kind of AI-powered autocomplete going on in textareas now?

                  To my knowledge, I'm not using any browser extensions that would do this. And I can't see anything in the settings. Maybe it's a macOS native thing?

                  But just in case it is coming from Orion, I see that the autocomplete is causing text to jump around and get corrupted. I'll take a screen recording while I type in this textarea to show the problem in practice.

                  Attached GIF shows the problem (specifically when I'm typing the first few words of that sentence). I would expect the text to just get appended as I type, but you can see a piece of text from the first paragraph suddenly flash out of existence and reappear below the bottom paragraph where I am typing, and then flash back. This happens a couple of times.

                  I also wondered if it might be website specific, but it isn't. It happens in GitHub (badly corrupting the text). It happens here (the problem seems to be cosmetic here; it doesn't permanently mutate the buffer). It happens on datadog.com (the one other site I tested this on).

                  To try and rule out OS-specific origin; I repeated the test in Chrome and all of those sites seem to work fine there.

                  Version 0.99.128-beta (WebKit 619.1.11.111.2) on macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79)

                  Sonoma (14)

                    Merged 1 post from AI-autocomplete in text areas corrupts text.
                      4 days later

                      laiz

                      Thanks for this tip, as it's allowed me to disable this and other smart settings globally. Thought it was only an Orion thing because I don't type much in other apps that aren't the terminal or VSCode.

                      However, while it was enabled, I've also pretty consistently gotten the bugs mentioned above. That is, the cursor would move around, or chunks of text would get moved around to my cursor, or even sometimes letters would just get dropped as I was typing a word. Those only happened in Orion after a recent update.

                          8 days later
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