Hi Andy, I understand you're working on a Rich Text control.
While working on IME (Input Method Editor) for Linux, I noticed that there is a feature called "surrounding" that it supports to give the IME information about the text being inputted. More info here: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/class.IMContext.html It works like this: When user is typing using an IME language, the underlying IME (for example https://github.com/tlwg/ibus-libthai) may ask the Toolkit for the surrounding text and it should reply with: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/method.IMContext.set_surrounding.html That contains: - The text - The length - The cursor position within the text So this way the underlying IME can provide accurate suggestions using the user context. That would be a nice feature to have but it requires some work to retrieve it from the text-based control. Just letting you know about this, it may be out of the scope of your rich text work for now. -- Thiago.
