bug#28907: 26.0.90; [eww] some problems in input/textarea

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:30:39 +0900, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:31:49 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:39:29 +0900
>>> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>

>>> There are some problems with an input form and a textarea as
>>> follows:

>>> ・Can't enter text at the beginnig of input/textarea if there is
>>>   a link just above the form.
>>> ・Can't enter space at (1- eol).
>>> ・Can't kill a line.
>>> ・Can't undo.
>>> ・Can't retrieve the response for the submit in a certain site.
>>> ・Padding width gets incorrect if there is a wide character.
>>> ・A major mode command like `g' doesn't work at the right outside
>>>   of textarea.

[...]

> Please don't install my patch as is, as I realized it is not
> necessarily a better solution.  In particular, to make kill and
> yank work properly, we would have to improve the handling of
> inlined editable input/textarea further.  Though I'm not sure
> whether I can reach to the best result, I'd like to work on it.

Progress report:
・Implementing `kill' and `yank' features have been almost done.
・`yank-pop' is in progress.
・No idea for making `undo' work properly so far.

http://www.jpl.org/tmp/eww-20171102.el

Regards,
(I will be absent till Monday.)