IME: fix random mid-word capitalization (stable snippet window + commit in-flight handling)

Gboard capitalizes the first character of a fresh input session and
derives its word context from the text it holds locally; it never
queries the app for context while typing. The editor was resetting that
session on essentially every event, so Gboard re-anchored to a fresh
session mid-word and caps went random:

- The pushed snippet WAS the render window. Any viewport change (keyboard
  show/hide animation, tap re-centering, scroll) changed the snippet, and
  gioui turns every snippet change into imm.restartInput — a full IME
  session reset. The snippet is now a hysteresis window around the caret
  (32 KB, re-anchor only when the caret is within 4 KB of an edge),
  decoupled from the render window: typing, taps within range, keyboard
  animation and flings never re-push it.
- gioui's EditEvent callback applies the commit to its own window state
  directly, so the op queue lags it by one commit; any frame event in
  the gap regressed the state and sent a restartInput with pre-commit
  text per keystroke. The drained commit is now applied to the pushed
  model immediately (Renderer.ApplyIMECommitToModel), and a short hold
  keeps stale pre-commit frames out of FlushIME until the logic's
  post-commit frame arrives.
- The layout feedback loop re-emitted on exact float equality of the
  derived last-line Y, spinning a re-emit -> shape -> re-emit loop
  (float-sum noise) that re-drew the editor and re-pushed IME state;
  gate it with a 0.5 dp epsilon.
- The render window bottom mapped through the WrapIndex whose
  in-viewport counts land while this very window is being shaped: the
  bottom oscillated frame to frame, resizing the window (and the old
  snippet) every frame. Use a fixed line span from the stable top
  instead (each logical line yields >= 1 visual line, so the viewport is
  always covered).

Result: zero snippet re-pushes during typing or flings (one re-anchor at
a far tap/file switch); emulator typing tests show all-lowercase
mid-word commits ('thaaaaaaaae', 'vapoaaaaaaaar') and the stress suite
(7 scenarios) passes clean with contiguous insertions only.

cmd/pad/main.go

@@ -372,6 +372,15 @@ func run(w *app.Window) error {
 							}
 						case key.EditEvent:
 							if focusedID == "editor_text" {
+								// Apply the commit to the pushed snippet model
+								// IMMEDIATELY (see Renderer.ApplyIMECommitToModel):
+								// gioui's EditEvent callback already advanced its
+								// own window state, and without this the op queue
+								// lags it by one commit — every frame event in
+								// the gap regresses the state and sends a
+								// restartInput with pre-commit text per keystroke
+								// (the random-caps bug).
+								renderer.ApplyIMECommitToModel(gtx, k)
 								// The commit range is in absolute file runes (the
 								// coordinate space of the pushed snippet, whose
 								// Range.Start is the context start). The logic maps

internal/editor/chunked_buffer.go

@@ -568,15 +568,28 @@ func (cb *ChunkedBuffer) visibleByteRangePrecise(scrollOffset ui.Dp, viewportHei
 	startLine = int(v0)
 	endLine := int(math.Ceil(float64(scrollOffset+viewportHeight) / float64(lineHeight)))
 	if w := cb.WrapIndex; w != nil {
+		// The window TOP is a visual line (the viewport top): map it to the
+		// logical line that contains it.
+		//
+		// The window BOTTOM must NOT be mapped through the index the same
+		// way: the wrap counts for lines INSIDE the viewport land precisely
+		// while this window is being shaped (their measured layouts feed the
+		// index), so the mapped bottom would oscillate frame to frame as
+		// measurements arrive, resizing the window every frame. Each
+		// resize changes the pushed IME snippet, and gioui turns a snippet
+		// change into a restartInput — a restart on every frame reset the
+		// IME's per-word input session, the source of random mid-word
+		// capitalization.
+		//
+		// Instead use a fixed span of logical lines from the stable top:
+		// each logical line produces at least one visual line, so the
+		// viewport's bottom visual line lies at or above
+		// startLine + (bottomVisual - topVisual); the window always covers
+		// the viewport, over-fetching only by the wrapped lines inside it
+		// (bounded by the viewport height; the renderer clips).
+		bottomVisual := endLine
 		startLine = w.LineForVisual(int32(v0))
-		// endLine is still in VISUAL space: it is the visual line at the
+		endLine = startLine + (bottomVisual - int(v0))
-		// viewport bottom, so map it to the logical line that contains it,
-		// exactly like the top. Using the raw visual number as a logical
-		// index over-fetched the window by every wrapped line above the
-		// viewport — an over-fetch that grows without bound with scroll
-		// depth, so shaping/drawing (and therefore scroll responsiveness)
-		// degraded the further down the file you were.
-		endLine = w.LineForVisual(int32(endLine))
 	}
 
 	if startLine < 0 {

internal/editor/logic.go

@@ -356,7 +356,12 @@ func (l *Logic) Run() {
 					l.emitFrame()
 				}
 			}
-			if derivedLastLineY != l.state.LastLineY {
+			// Epsilon-gated: the derived value is a float sum of line
+			// heights, and exact-equality re-emit spun a re-emit -> shape ->
+			// re-emit loop whenever the sum landed on a different float
+			// representation frame to frame (each loop iteration re-drew the
+			// editor, re-pushed IME state, and starved real work).
+			if d := derivedLastLineY - l.state.LastLineY; d > 0.5 || d < -0.5 {
 				l.state.LastLineY = derivedLastLineY
 				l.emitFrame()
 			}
@@ -440,6 +445,9 @@ func (l *Logic) openFile(path string) {
 	// from scratch (the window/context fields are recomputed by buildFrame).
 	TheState.Editor.imeRuneCacheByte = 0
 	TheState.Editor.imeRuneCacheCount = 0
+	TheState.Editor.imeSnipWS, TheState.Editor.imeSnipWE, TheState.Editor.imeSnipArmed = 0, 0, false
+	TheState.Editor.IMESnippetText = ""
+	TheState.Editor.IMECaretRune, TheState.Editor.IMESelStartRune, TheState.Editor.IMESelEndRune = 0, -1, -1
 	TheState.Editor.IMEContext = ""
 	TheState.Editor.IMEContextStartByte = 0
 	TheState.Editor.IMEOffsetRune = 0

internal/editor/state.go

@@ -108,6 +108,24 @@ type EditorState struct {
 	// (imeAnchorEdit) and a file switch resets it to (0,0).
 	imeRuneCacheByte  int
 	imeRuneCacheCount int
+
+	// IME snippet window (byte offsets, hysteresis-gated — see
+	// computeIMESnippetWindow). Decoupled from the render window: the render
+	// window follows the viewport (keyboard show/hide resizes it), while the
+	// IME snippet must be STABLE so a tap that re-centers the render window
+	// does not re-push the snippet. A snippet re-push reaches Gboard as
+	// imm.restartInput, which starts a fresh input session and capitalizes
+	// the first committed character even mid-word. The snippet re-anchors
+	// only when the caret leaves the window margins.
+	imeSnipWS           int
+	imeSnipWE           int
+	imeSnipArmed        bool
+	IMESnippetText      string
+	IMESnippetStartRune int
+	IMESnippetEndRune   int
+	IMECaretRune        int
+	IMESelStartRune     int
+	IMESelEndRune       int
 	// EditSeq counts content edits (incremented by markDirty). The shaped
 	// glyph layout arriving via layoutChan is only applied to the WrapIndex
 	// when its EditSeq matches, so a layout shaped before an edit can never
@@ -2095,21 +2113,6 @@ func countRunes(s string) int {
 	return n
 }
 
-// lastRunesStart returns the byte offset where the last n runes of s begin
-// (0 if s has fewer than n runes). It stops at rune boundaries, so the result
-// never splits a UTF-8 sequence.
-func lastRunesStart(s string, n int) int {
-	start := len(s)
-	for i := 0; i < n && start > 0; i++ {
-		start--
-		// Walk back over continuation bytes (0x80-0xBF) to the lead byte.
-		for start > 0 && s[start]&0xC0 == 0x80 {
-			start--
-		}
-	}
-	return start
-}
-
 // fileContent returns file[lo:hi) from the active buffer (chunked or small).
 func (s *State) fileContent(lo, hi int) string {
 	e := &s.Editor
@@ -2136,26 +2139,85 @@ func (s *State) bufferLen() int {
 	return len(s.Editor.Buffer)
 }
 
-// imeLeadingContext returns up to 10 runes immediately before byte position
-// start in the active buffer ("" at file start, or for too-large files). At
-// most 64 bytes are scanned (10 runes * 4 bytes + margin).
-func imeLeadingContext(start int) string {
-	if start <= 0 || TheState.Editor.TooLarge {
-		return ""
-	}
-	a := start - 64
-	if a < 0 {
-		a = 0
-	}
-	span := TheState.fileContent(a, start)
-	return span[lastRunesStart(span, 10):]
-}
-
 // imeRuneOffsetAt returns the rune count of the file prefix [0, bytePos).
 // It scans only the delta from the cached anchor (imeRuneCacheByte/Count), so
 // repeated calls with a slowly moving byte position (scrolling while typing)
 // are O(delta); a large jump (file switch, long scroll) does one full scan
 // and then anchors again. Must be called on the logic goroutine (owner).
+// computeIMESnippetWindow maintains the hysteresis-gated IME snippet window
+// (see the imeSnip* fields) and fills IMESnippetText / IMESnippet*Rune /
+// IMECaretRune / IMESel* for the renderer to push. Must run on the logic
+// goroutine during layout.
+//
+// The window is [32 KB] around the caret and re-anchors only when the caret
+// is within [4 KB] of an edge (a screenful of flings stays inside, so
+// fling-tap-type does not restart the IME session; only a genuinely distant
+// tap or file switch re-anchors). Consequences:
+//   - typing inside the window never re-anchors (the frame's snippet text
+//     changes by the commit, which ApplyIMECommitToModel has already pushed
+//   - FlushIME dedupes and no restartInput is sent per keystroke);
+//   - a tap/caret move within the margins does not re-anchor: Gboard keeps
+//     its input session, so the first character after a tap is lowercase
+//     even mid-word (a render-window snippet re-anchored on every viewport
+//     change, resetting Gboard to a fresh session that caps the first
+//     character);
+//   - scrolls (flings) do not move the caret, so they never re-anchor: the
+//     IME stays anchored to the caret even while it is off-screen, which is
+//     what commit targeting needs.
+//
+// Edits shift the byte window silently (the text is re-read fresh every
+// frame); the drift self-corrects at the next re-anchor.
+func (s *State) computeIMESnippetWindow() {
+	const snipSize, snipMargin = 32768, 4096
+	caret := s.Editor.CursorPosition
+	if s.Editor.imeSnipArmed {
+		if caret < s.Editor.imeSnipWS+snipMargin || caret > s.Editor.imeSnipWE-snipMargin {
+			s.Editor.imeSnipArmed = false
+		}
+	}
+	if !s.Editor.imeSnipArmed {
+		ws := caret - snipSize/2
+		if ws < 0 {
+			ws = 0
+		}
+		s.Editor.imeSnipWS = ws
+		s.Editor.imeSnipWE = ws + snipSize
+		s.Editor.imeSnipArmed = true
+	}
+	if end := int(s.fileLenNow()); end > 0 && s.Editor.imeSnipWE > end {
+		s.Editor.imeSnipWE = end
+	}
+	text := s.fileContent(s.Editor.imeSnipWS, s.Editor.imeSnipWE)
+	startRune := s.imeRuneOffsetAt(s.Editor.imeSnipWS)
+	s.Editor.IMESnippetText = text
+	s.Editor.IMESnippetStartRune = startRune
+	s.Editor.IMESnippetEndRune = startRune + utf8.RuneCountInString(text)
+	s.Editor.IMECaretRune = s.imeRuneOffsetAt(caret)
+	if selActive() {
+		ss, se := s.Editor.SelectionStart, s.Editor.SelectionEnd
+		if ss < s.Editor.imeSnipWS {
+			ss = s.Editor.imeSnipWS
+		}
+		if se > s.Editor.imeSnipWE {
+			se = s.Editor.imeSnipWE
+		}
+		r0 := s.imeRuneOffsetAt(ss)
+		s.Editor.IMESelStartRune = r0
+		s.Editor.IMESelEndRune = r0 + utf8.RuneCountInString(s.fileContent(ss, se))
+	} else {
+		s.Editor.IMESelStartRune = -1
+		s.Editor.IMESelEndRune = -1
+	}
+}
+
+// fileLenNow returns the current content length (chunked or string buffer).
+func (s *State) fileLenNow() int64 {
+	if cb := s.Editor.ChunkedBuffer; cb != nil {
+		return cb.fileLen
+	}
+	return int64(len(s.Editor.Buffer))
+}
+
 func (s *State) imeRuneOffsetAt(bytePos int) int {
 	e := &s.Editor
 	fileLen := s.bufferLen()
@@ -2353,7 +2415,6 @@ func applyIMECommitBytes(startByte, endByte int, text string) {
 	markDirty()
 }
 
-
 func markDirty() {
 	// Every content edit funnels through here, so EditSeq is the universal
 	// "content changed" token (the WrapIndex layout-correlation gate uses it).
@@ -2681,9 +2742,7 @@ func EditorLayout(screenWidth, screenHeight ui.Dp, wordWrap bool) []ui.Element {
 	// is no leading context. See imeRuneToByte / Renderer.FlushIME.
 	TheState.Editor.IMEWindowStartByte = start
 	TheState.Editor.IMEWindowText = visibleContent
-	TheState.Editor.IMEContext = imeLeadingContext(start)
+	TheState.computeIMESnippetWindow()
-	TheState.Editor.IMEContextStartByte = start - len(TheState.Editor.IMEContext)
-	TheState.Editor.IMEOffsetRune = TheState.imeRuneOffsetAt(TheState.Editor.IMEContextStartByte)
 	// Window-relative selection for the TextField (byte offsets into
 	// visibleContent); -1 means nothing visible is selected. The IME push and
 	// the in-app highlight consume this; the logic side keeps absolute
@@ -2772,8 +2831,12 @@ func EditorLayout(screenWidth, screenHeight ui.Dp, wordWrap bool) []ui.Element {
 	// it from its true file position (see imeLeadingContext / IMEOffsetRune
 	// above and Renderer.FlushIME): this is what stops the keyboard from
 	// auto-capitalizing mid-sentence at the top of the visible window.
-	editorElem.IMEContext = TheState.Editor.IMEContext
+	editorElem.IMESnippetText = TheState.Editor.IMESnippetText
-	editorElem.IMEOffset = TheState.Editor.IMEOffsetRune
+	editorElem.IMESnippetStartRune = TheState.Editor.IMESnippetStartRune
+	editorElem.IMESnippetEndRune = TheState.Editor.IMESnippetEndRune
+	editorElem.IMECaretRune = TheState.Editor.IMECaretRune
+	editorElem.IMESelStartRune = TheState.Editor.IMESelStartRune
+	editorElem.IMESelEndRune = TheState.Editor.IMESelEndRune
 	editorElem.WindowStartByte = start
 	// While the find bar is open, key focus belongs to the main-owned
 	// "find_bar" widget.Editor: the editor stops its per-frame IME sync, and

internal/test/e2e/real_file_large_ime_test.go

@@ -83,19 +83,15 @@ func TestRealFile_LargeFile_IMECommits(t *testing.T) {
 	var win struct {
 		Start int
 		Text  string
-		CtxStart   int
+		Snip  string
-		Context    string
-		OffsetRune int
 	}
 	v, err := h.Inspect(func(st *editor.State) any {
 		e := &st.Editor
 		return struct {
 			Start int
 			Text  string
-			CtxStart   int
+			Snip  string
-			Context    string
+		}{e.IMEWindowStartByte, e.IMEWindowText, e.IMESnippetText}
-			OffsetRune int
-		}{e.IMEWindowStartByte, e.IMEWindowText, e.IMEContextStartByte, e.IMEContext, e.IMEOffsetRune}
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Inspect: %v", err)
@@ -103,19 +99,16 @@ func TestRealFile_LargeFile_IMECommits(t *testing.T) {
 	win = v.(struct {
 		Start int
 		Text  string
-		CtxStart   int
+		Snip  string
-		Context    string
-		OffsetRune int
 	})
 	if want := model[win.Start : win.Start+len(win.Text)]; win.Text != want {
 		t.Fatalf("IME window text desync at start=%d", win.Start)
 	}
-	if win.CtxStart+len(win.Context) != win.Start ||
+	// The IME snippet is a hysteresis window around the caret (see
-		win.Context != model[win.CtxStart:win.Start] {
+	// State.computeIMESnippetWindow); it must always be a fresh slice of
-		t.Fatalf("IME context desync: ctxStart=%d ctx=%q", win.CtxStart, win.Context)
+	// the model.
-	}
+	if i := strings.Index(model, win.Snip); i < 0 {
-	if want := utf8.RuneCountInString(model[:win.CtxStart]); win.OffsetRune != want {
+		t.Fatalf("IME snippet not a slice of the model: %q", win.Snip[:min(40, len(win.Snip))])
-		t.Fatalf("IME offset rune = %d, want %d", win.OffsetRune, want)
 	}
 
 	// 2) Replacement commit: absolute file runes (the coordinate space the

internal/ui/element.go

@@ -213,20 +213,26 @@ type TextField struct {
 	// is running (the IME insets dispatches redraw the app), so the keyboard
 	// could not be dismissed. See TextField.Draw.
 	ShowIMESeq uint64
-	// IMEContext is the leading context (up to 10 runes immediately before
+	// IME snippet (hysteresis window around the caret — see
-	// the window start) that the renderer prepends to Value when pushing the
+	// State.computeIMESnippetWindow): IMESnippetText is the pushed text,
-	// IME snippet; IMEOffset is the absolute file rune offset where
+	// IMESnippet{Start,End}Rune its absolute file rune range, IMECaretRune
-	// IMEContext begins (the pushed snippet's Range.Start). Computed by the
+	// the caret's absolute rune, and IMESel*Rune the live selection's rune
-	// logic layer at frame-build time; see Renderer.FlushIME and the IME
+	// range (-1/-1 when no selection).
-	// fields on EditorState (IMEContext/IMEOffsetRune).
+	IMESnippetText      string
-	IMEContext string
+	IMESnippetStartRune int
-	IMEOffset  int
+	IMESnippetEndRune   int
+	IMECaretRune        int
+	IMESelStartRune     int
+	IMESelEndRune       int
+	// EditSeq is the buffer edit sequence at frame-build time (0 for
+	// non-editor fields); the renderer uses it to detect the frame that
+	// carries an IME commit's result (see Renderer.imeHold).
+	EditSeq uint64
 	// WindowStartByte is the absolute file byte offset where Value (the
 	// visible window) begins; -1/0 for whole-buffer fields. Used by the
 	// renderer's IME model to translate snippet positions back to file bytes
 	// (see Renderer.ModelTranslate).
 	WindowStartByte int
-	
 }
 
 func (tf TextField) Type() string                { return "textfield" }
@@ -293,23 +299,6 @@ func (tf TextField) Draw(gtx layout.Context, r *Renderer) {
 	r.drawWrappedText(gtx, tf.Value, tf.region, tf.WordWrap, tf.WrapWidth, tf.ScrollOffset, tf.CursorPosition, tf.SelectionStart, tf.SelectionEnd, tf.CaretDrag, tf.MatchRanges, tf.CurrentMatch, tf.Focused)
 }
 
-// runeCount returns the number of UTF-8 runes in s[:bytePos] (bytePos is a
-// byte offset, clamped to len(s)). A rune starts at an ASCII byte (<0x80) or a
-// multi-byte lead byte (>=0xC0); 0x80-0xBF are continuation bytes.
-func runeCount(s string, bytePos int) int {
-	if bytePos > len(s) {
-		bytePos = len(s)
-	}
-	n := 0
-	for i := 0; i < bytePos; i++ {
-		b := s[i]
-		if b < 0x80 || b >= 0xC0 {
-			n++
-		}
-	}
-	return n
-}
-
 // NewTextField creates a visible multiline TextField.
 func NewTextField(id string, value string, region Region, wordWrap bool, wrapWidth Dp, scrollOffset Dp, cursorPos int, selStart, selEnd int, interactions []Interaction) TextField {
 	return TextField{

internal/ui/render.go

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ type Renderer struct {
 	lastIMEField   string
 	lastWasFocused bool
 	lastSnippet    key.Snippet
+
 	lastSelStart   int    // absolute rune index of last-pushed selection start; -1 = no selection
 	lastSelCaret   int    // absolute rune index of last-pushed selection end/caret
 	lastIMEShowSeq uint64 // last ShowIMESeq value that issued SoftKeyboardCmd{Show:true}
@@ -128,7 +129,6 @@ type Renderer struct {
 	// of the pre-edit frame text (which is what desynced the old push-from-
 	// Draw path and restarted the IME on every keystroke).
 
-
 	// Caret geometry drawn during the most recent frame, in view-local
 	// pixels (imeCaretPos is the caret/baseline intersection, per key.Caret).
 	// FlushIME attaches it to the pushed SelectionCmd: gioui only calls
@@ -144,6 +144,20 @@ type Renderer struct {
 	imeCaretDescent float32
 	lastIMECaretPos f32.Point
 
+	// imeHold: a commit was applied to the pushed model (see
+	// ApplyIMECommitToModel) but the logic's post-commit frame has not been
+	// drawn yet. The frame(s) drawn in the gap are pre-commit; their
+	// snippets would clobber the model with the stale text, regressing
+	// gioui's editor state and causing a restart per keystroke. While the
+	// hold is active, FlushIME skips a frame whose EditSeq equals the
+	// pre-commit sequence and resumes on the next one.
+	imeHoldActive  bool
+	imeHoldEditSeq uint64
+	imeHoldFrames  int
+	// lastEditSeq: the EditSeq of the last editor frame drawn (the
+	// pre-commit sequence when an IME commit is in flight).
+	lastEditSeq int64
+
 	// FocusCmd dedup (main-owned, persistent across frames). key.FocusCmd is
 	// issued ONLY on a focus transition, never per frame: even a no-op FocusCmd
 	// (same focus) takes the router's "immediate command" path, which re-queues
@@ -263,56 +277,127 @@ func (r *Renderer) pointInHandleBox(p image.Point) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
+// ApplyIMECommitToModel applies a drained IME commit to the pushed snippet
+// model and re-pushes it IMMEDIATELY, on the drain pass. This is required
+// because gioui's EditEvent callback applies the same commit to its own
+// window state (w.imeState) directly, bypassing the op queue; the op-queue
+// state then lags w.imeState by exactly this commit, and gioui's
+// per-frame comparison (updateState) sees the mismatch as a SNIPPET
+// REGRESSION — it rolls the state back and sends a restartInput with the
+// PRE-commit text on every single keystroke. Gboard resets its per-word
+// input session on that restart (and it never queries the app for
+// context), which is the source of the random mid-word capitalization.
+// Pushing the post-commit snippet here makes the op queue match w.imeState
+// before the next frame: the comparison is a no-op, no restart is sent,
+// and Gboard's session (auto-shift, composition) survives the keystroke.
+// The logic goroutine applies the same commit to the buffer asynchronously;
+// when its frame arrives, FlushIME sees the snippet unchanged (already
+// pushed) and does nothing. If the logic SNAPS the commit to a different
+// position (drift guard), the post-commit frame's snippet differs from the
+// model and one resyncing restart is pushed then — correct.
+func (r *Renderer) ApplyIMECommitToModel(gtx layout.Context, ev key.EditEvent) {
+	sn := r.lastSnippet
+	local := ev.Range.Start - sn.Range.Start
+	total := utf8.RuneCountInString(sn.Text)
+	if local < 0 || local > total || ev.Range.End-sn.Range.Start > total {
+		return // commit outside the pushed window; the next frame resyncs
+	}
+	// Replace [local, local+repl) runes with ev.Text (repl is the commit's
+	// own replaced span — 0 for a plain insertion).
+	rs := []rune(sn.Text)
+	repl := ev.Range.End - ev.Range.Start
+	newRs := make([]rune, 0, len(rs)+len([]rune(ev.Text)))
+	newRs = append(newRs, rs[:local]...)
+	newRs = append(newRs, []rune(ev.Text)...)
+	if local+repl < len(rs) {
+		newRs = append(newRs, rs[local+repl:]...)
+	}
+	newSnip := key.Snippet{
+		Range: key.Range{
+			Start: sn.Range.Start,
+			End:   sn.Range.End + len([]rune(ev.Text)) - repl,
+		},
+		Text: string(newRs),
+	}
+	r.lastSnippet = newSnip
+	gtx.Execute(key.SnippetCmd{Tag: "editor_text", Snippet: newSnip})
+	// The caret is at the end of the inserted text: push the selection so
+	// the op queue's selection matches w.imeState (the EditEvent's Replace
+	// moved it there). The px caret position is the current one (the next
+	// frame corrects it); gioui's updateCaret is cosmetic for the IME.
+	// Hold the pre-commit frame(s) out of FlushIME until the post-commit
+	// frame arrives (they would clobber the model just pushed).
+	r.imeHoldActive = true
+	r.imeHoldEditSeq = uint64(r.lastEditSeq)
+	r.imeHoldFrames = 0
+	caret := ev.Range.End + utf8.RuneCountInString(ev.Text)
+	r.lastSelStart, r.lastSelCaret = -1, caret
+	r.lastIMECaretPos = r.imeCaretPos
+	gtx.Execute(key.SelectionCmd{
+		Tag:   "editor_text",
+		Range: key.Range{Start: caret, End: caret},
+		Caret: key.Caret{
+			Pos:     r.imeCaretPos,
+			Ascent:  r.imeCaretAscent,
+			Descent: r.imeCaretDescent,
+		},
+	})
+}
+
 func (r *Renderer) FlushIME(gtx layout.Context, tf TextField) {
-	ctxRunes := utf8.RuneCountInString(tf.IMEContext)
+	// An IME commit is in flight (see ApplyIMECommitToModel): a pre-commit
-	// The snippet is the visible window with up to 10 runes of leading
+	// frame must not push its stale snippet and regress gioui's state.
-	// context prepended, addressed from the absolute file rune where the
+	if r.imeHoldActive {
-	// context begins (tf.IMEOffset): the IME sees the true document
+		if tf.EditSeq == r.imeHoldEditSeq {
-	// position, and Android's TextUtils.getCapsMode
+			// Bounded so a no-op commit (no EditSeq advance) cannot stick
-	// (GioView.getCursorCapsMode) can find real preceding context instead of
+			// the hold: after a few frames resume normal flushing.
-	// treating the top of the visible window as the start of a sentence.
+			if r.imeHoldFrames++; r.imeHoldFrames > 8 {
-	//
+				r.imeHoldActive = false
-	// The snippet is pushed whenever the frame's text differs from the last
+			} else {
-	// push (window moved, edit applied, file switched). gioui dedupes a
+				return
-	// SnippetCmd against its own cache, so only real changes reach the OS as
+			}
-	// imm.restartInput. After a commit the frame text (the buffer with the
+		}
-	// commit applied) equals what the IME already holds locally, so the
+		r.imeHoldActive = false
-	// dedupe naturally suppresses the restart; a fling moves the window and
+	}
-	// re-anchors the IME exactly once per text change. Commit positions
+	if tf.EditSeq > 0 {
-	// arriving while a restart is dropped (Gboard during flings) are caught
+		r.lastEditSeq = int64(tf.EditSeq)
-	// by the logic-side drift guard (editor.HandleIMECommit), which snaps a
+	}
-	// small commit to the cursor — the position the IME was last told.
+	// The snippet is the hysteresis window around the caret (see
+	// State.computeIMESnippetWindow), shipped precomputed by the logic:
+	// stable across render-window moves (keyboard show/hide, tap
+	// re-centering, scrolls), so those events do NOT re-push the snippet —
+	// a re-push reaches Gboard as imm.restartInput, which starts a fresh
+	// input session that capitalizes the first committed character even
+	// mid-word. It re-anchors only when the caret leaves the window
+	// margins (far tap, fling past the window, file switch), and on edits
+	// (whose text ApplyIMECommitToModel has already pushed, so the frame's
+	// copy dedupes away).
 	snippet := key.Snippet{
 		Range: key.Range{
-			Start: tf.IMEOffset,
+			Start: tf.IMESnippetStartRune,
-			End:   tf.IMEOffset + ctxRunes + utf8.RuneCountInString(tf.Value),
+			End:   tf.IMESnippetEndRune,
 		},
-		Text: tf.IMEContext + tf.Value,
+		Text: tf.IMESnippetText,
 	}
 	if snippet != r.lastSnippet {
 		r.lastSnippet = snippet
-		// The snippet change resets the IME's selection: force the
+		// A snippet change resets the IME's selection: force the selection
-		// selection re-push below so the caret is re-anchored in the new
+		// re-push below so the caret is re-anchored in the new text in the
-		// text in the same frame.
+		// same frame. (A drained IME commit is applied to the model BEFORE
+		// this runs — see ApplyIMECommitToModel — so a normal keystroke
+		// never reaches this branch; it is the re-anchoring path: scroll,
+		// tap, file switch, snapped commit, external edit.)
 		r.lastSelStart, r.lastSelCaret = -1, -1
 		gtx.Execute(key.SnippetCmd{Tag: tf.id, Snippet: snippet})
 	}
 	// Push the caret/selection (deduped) in absolute file runes, the same
 	// coordinate space as the snippet (see widget.Editor's updateIMEState).
 	var selStart, selEnd int
-	if tf.SelectionStart >= 0 && tf.SelectionEnd > tf.SelectionStart {
+	if tf.IMESelStartRune >= 0 && tf.IMESelEndRune > tf.IMESelStartRune {
-		s, e := tf.SelectionStart, tf.SelectionEnd
+		selStart, selEnd = tf.IMESelStartRune, tf.IMESelEndRune
-		if s < 0 {
-			s = 0
-		}
-		if e > len(tf.Value) {
-			e = len(tf.Value)
-		}
-		selStart = tf.IMEOffset + ctxRunes + runeCount(tf.Value, s)
-		selEnd = tf.IMEOffset + ctxRunes + runeCount(tf.Value, e)
 	} else {
 		selStart = -1
-		selEnd = tf.IMEOffset + ctxRunes + runeCount(tf.Value, tf.CursorPosition)
+		selEnd = tf.IMECaretRune
 	}
 	selectionJumped := selStart != r.lastSelStart || selEnd != r.lastSelCaret
 	caretMoved := r.imeCaretPos != r.lastIMECaretPos