Smart brace completion results in incorrect caret data

To listen to actual changes in underlying document, one needs to use com.intellij.openapi.editor.event.DocumentListener instead of CaretListener (com.intellij.openapi.editor.event.DocumentEvent#getOffset). What feature are you building around this?

Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm recording every single change made to a document. To do this, I use the following piece of code:

val eventMulticaster = EditorFactory.getInstance().eventMulticaster

val caretListener = PluginCaretListener(snapshotManager)
val documentListener = PluginDocumentListener(snapshotManager)
val selectionListener = PluginSelectionListener(snapshotManager)

eventMulticaster.addSelectionListener(selectionListener)
eventMulticaster.addCaretListener(caretListener)
eventMulticaster.addDocumentListener(documentListener)

As you can see, I'm already using a DocumentListener. However, at the moment, I am implementing documentChanged() only to track changes to the document. In fact, I'm using DocumentEvent.getOffset() already, but I'm not using it like you are suggesting. Basically, my assumption is that

val caretPosition = startOffset + newText.length

And it works! I've got my whole system built around this assumption and it works perfectly. The only case where it fails is in brace overtype support.

Could you please post the full snippet of your DocumentListener implementation?

Sure, here it is

class PluginDocumentListener(val snapshotManager: ISnapshotManager) : DocumentListener
{
  override fun documentChanged(event: DocumentEvent)
  {
    val document: Document = event.document
    val fileKey = FileProcessorUtil.ProcessFile(document, snapshotManager) ?: return

    val offset = event.offset
    val newText = event.newFragment.toString()
    val oldLength = event.oldLength

    if (fileKey.first)
    {
      //println("[Skip first edit for new file]");
      return
    }

    snapshotManager.newModification(fileKey.second, offset, oldLength, newText)
  }
}

Just obtain actual caret offset after the document change, like you do in the caret listener:

caret.offset

I assume you are interested in primary caret's position. In this case caret instance can be obtained as

editor.caretModel.primaryCaret

Dmitry, it seems that DocumentEvent does not have an editor available. I can do event.document, but how do I get to the editor? This isn't a problem in SelectionEvent and CaretEvent, they expose an editor. But DocumentEvent does not.

That's because there can be multiple editors for the same document. If you are interested in all editors, you can get them via

EditorFactory.getInstance().getEditors(document)

If you are interested in a specific editor, you'll need to track it yourselves in some way.

Thank you! This worked, I now have good caret placement.