From c7859fed1a49b452238e347f7740b5102b1f556e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:27:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add heuristic to compare documents to prevent autocomplete
 flicker

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
---
 src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposerInput.js | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposerInput.js b/src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposerInput.js
index 26e6ac8ab2..26e66f25fc 100644
--- a/src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposerInput.js
+++ b/src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposerInput.js
@@ -498,8 +498,10 @@ export default class MessageComposerInput extends React.Component {
             }
         }
 
-        // when selection changes hide the autocomplete
-        if (!rangeEquals(this.state.editorState.selection, editorState.selection)) {
+        // when selection changes hide the autocomplete.
+        // Selection changes when we enter text so use a heuristic to compare documents without doing it recursively
+        const documentChanged = this.state.editorState.document.text !== editorState.document.text;
+        if (!documentChanged && !rangeEquals(this.state.editorState.selection, editorState.selection)) {
             this.autocomplete.hide();
         }