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Improve Windows text input for international keyboard layouts and IMEs (#41259)
- Custom handling of dead keys has been removed. UX for dead keys is now
the same as other applications on Windows.
- We could bring back some kind of custom UI, but only if UX is fully
compatible with expected Windows behavior (e.g. ability to move the
cursor after typing a dead key).
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/38838
- Character input via AltGr shift state now always has priority over
keybindings. This applies regardless of whether the keystroke used the
AltGr key or Ctrl+Alt to enter the shift state.
- In particular, we use the following heuristic to determine whether a
keystroke should trigger character input first or trigger keybindings
first:
- If the keystroke does not have any of Ctrl/Alt/Win down, trigger
keybindings first.
- Otherwise, determine the character that would be entered by the
keystroke. If it is a control character, or no character at all, trigger
keybindings first.
- Otherwise, the keystroke has _any_ of Ctrl/Alt/Win down and generates
a printable character. Compare this character against the character that
would be generated if the keystroke had _none_ of Ctrl/Alt/Win down:
- If the character is the same, the modifiers are not significant;
trigger keybindings first.
- If there is no active input handler, or the active input handler
indicates that it isn't accepting text input (e.g. when an operator is
pending in Vim mode), character entry is not useful; trigger keybindings
first.
- Otherwise, assume the modifiers enable access to an otherwise
difficult-to-enter key; trigger character entry first.
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/35862
- Fixes
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40054#issuecomment-3447833349
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/41486
- TranslateMessage calls are no longer skipped for unhandled keystrokes.
This fixes language input keys on Japanese and Korean keyboards (and
surely other cases as well).
- To avoid any other missing-TranslateMessage headaches in the future,
the message loop has been rewritten in a "traditional" Win32 style,
where accelerators are handled in the message loop and TranslateMessage
is called in the intended manner.
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/39971
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40300
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40321
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40335
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40592
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40638
- As a bonus, Alt+Space now opens the system menu, since it is triggered
by the WM_SYSCHAR generated by TranslateMessage.
- VK_PROCESSKEYs are now ignored rather than being unwrapped and matched
against keybindings. This ensures that IMEs will reliably receieve
keystrokes that they express interest in. This matches the behavior of
native Windows applications.
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/36736
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/39608
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/39991
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/41223
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/41656
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/34180
  - Fixes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/41766


Release Notes:

- windows: Improved keyboard input handling for international keyboard
layouts and IMEs
2025-11-04 20:28:12 -05:00
.cargo ci: Update typos versions and fix new occurrences (#40784) 2025-10-21 10:43:22 +00:00
.cloudflare docs: Document context servers (#21170) 2024-11-25 11:05:14 -05:00
.config ci: Run slow tests first (#40769) 2025-10-21 09:58:26 +02:00
.github More tweaks to CI pipeline (#41941) 2025-11-04 16:28:29 -07:00
.zed Remove agent1 code (#40495) 2025-10-17 18:49:11 +02:00
assets git: Add support for git pull with rebase (#41117) 2025-11-04 16:41:06 +00:00
ci Move Nightly release to gh-workflow (#41349) 2025-10-28 13:57:23 -06:00
crates Improve Windows text input for international keyboard layouts and IMEs (#41259) 2025-11-04 20:28:12 -05:00
docs No-op commit to test cherry-picking (#41948) 2025-11-04 23:35:19 +00:00
extensions Fix path for vscode-html-language-server when found on PATH (#40832) 2025-10-22 22:44:25 -04:00
legal Fix the markdown table (#38729) 2025-09-23 16:49:45 +00:00
nix remote: Support building x86_64-linux-musl proxy in nix-darwin (#41291) 2025-10-28 06:58:09 +01:00
script Fetch (just) enough refs in script/cherry-pick (#41949) 2025-11-04 17:09:43 -07:00
tooling More tweaks to CI pipeline (#41941) 2025-11-04 16:28:29 -07:00
.clinerules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
.cursorrules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs Add PR 15352 to .git-blame-ignore-revs (#30870) 2025-05-17 11:35:58 +00:00
.gitattributes windows: Make sure zed.sh using the correct line ending (#37650) 2025-09-05 16:25:55 +00:00
.gitignore Add linux_repo_snapshot got .gitignore (#40802) 2025-10-21 15:31:40 +00:00
.mailmap Update .mailmap (#30874) 2025-05-17 12:34:42 +00:00
.prettierrc ci: Add check for formatting default.json (#30034) 2025-05-06 18:55:26 +00:00
.rules Fix small spelling mistakes (#38284) 2025-09-16 21:58:40 +00:00
.windsurfrules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
Cargo.lock Improve compare_perf.yml, cherry_pick.yml (#41606) 2025-11-04 11:29:35 -07:00
Cargo.toml Improve compare_perf.yml, cherry_pick.yml (#41606) 2025-11-04 11:29:35 -07:00
CLAUDE.md Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
clippy.toml Fix shell welcome prompt showing up in Zed's stdout (#41311) 2025-10-27 20:04:36 +00:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Remove community content from docs and point to zed.dev (#19895) 2024-10-29 09:44:58 -04:00
compose.yml Remove PostgREST (#41299) 2025-10-27 13:27:59 -04:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Mention pure style changes in the contributing docs (#39096) 2025-09-29 11:02:47 +00:00
debug.plist WIP 2023-12-14 09:25:14 -07:00
default.nix Fix nix build (#26270) 2025-03-10 01:06:11 -07:00
docker-compose.sql collab: Setup database for LLM service (#15882) 2024-08-06 17:18:08 -04:00
Dockerfile-collab Bump Rust to 1.90 (#38436) 2025-09-22 14:36:10 -07:00
Dockerfile-collab.dockerignore ci: Move collab to Dockerfile-collab (#18515) 2024-09-30 16:14:26 -04:00
Dockerfile-cross.dockerignore Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
Dockerfile-distros Support More Linux (#18480) 2024-09-30 17:46:21 -04:00
Dockerfile-distros.dockerignore Support More Linux (#18480) 2024-09-30 17:46:21 -04:00
flake.lock Bump Rust to 1.90 (#38436) 2025-09-22 14:36:10 -07:00
flake.nix nix: Add job names and garnix substitutor (#31625) 2025-05-28 13:32:12 -07:00
GEMINI.md Add missing GEMINI.md rule file for gemini-cli (#38885) 2025-10-02 09:47:29 -04:00
LICENSE-AGPL Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-APACHE Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-GPL Licenses: change license fields in Cargo.toml to AGPL-3.0-or-later. (#5535) 2024-01-27 13:51:16 +01:00
livekit.yaml Add LiveKit server to Docker Compose (#7907) 2024-02-16 10:49:48 -05:00
lychee.toml ci: Check for broken links (#30844) 2025-06-06 09:39:35 +00:00
Procfile Update instructions for local collaboration (#35689) 2025-08-06 11:10:28 -07:00
Procfile.web Remove PostgREST (#41299) 2025-10-27 13:27:59 -04:00
README.md Restore Oxford comma in README (#40518) 2025-10-17 17:28:19 +00:00
renovate.json Remove workspace-hack (#40216) 2025-10-17 18:58:14 +00:00
REVIEWERS.conl Add Ben K to gpui PR reviewers (#41919) 2025-11-04 17:06:16 +00:00
rust-toolchain.toml Bump Rust to 1.90 (#38436) 2025-09-22 14:36:10 -07:00
shell.nix Fix nix build (#26270) 2025-03-10 01:06:11 -07:00
typos.toml project panel: Make updates asynchronous (#38881) 2025-10-02 11:40:09 +05:30

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