Please improve using the keyboard (arrow keys) to move through text
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Marjan Venema
I'm a keyboard addict. Partly because my wrists and fingers don't like working with a mouse.
Using the cursor keys to move through text on a page, is highly frustrating.
For example, the text cursor disappears when using the down arrow reaches the end of a bulleted list.
Another: using the down arrow often moves the cursor to the end of the last line in a paragraph/block before moving to the next paragraph/block. This is unexpected and breaks my flow.
Third: Using the right arrow at the end of a paragraph/block does not move to the beginning of the next paragraph/block. Analogously, using the left arrow at the beginning does not move to the end of the previous.
There are other examples, but the above are what I've experienced most frequently.
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Judson Dunn
Down arrow on the last line still does not behave like any other text edit UI on Mac. It should move to the end of the text.
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Michael von Hohnhorst
Judson Dunn: Thanks, this will be fixed as well!!
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Michael von Hohnhorst
Judson Dunn: Ok, just implemented it. Will go live with the next update.
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Michael von Hohnhorst
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These issues should be fixed now! Thanks for all the feedback!
The fix for the third issue "Using the right arrow at the end of a paragraph/block does not move to the beginning of the next paragraph/block." went live with the update today.
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Eleanor Konik
"Third: Using the right arrow at the end of a paragraph/block does not move to the beginning of the next paragraph/block. Analogously, using the left arrow at the beginning does not move to the end of the previous." is exactly what I was coming here to report. Definitely disorienting for those of us used to normal text editors.
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Akshat Mishra
Any updates on this issue? It's so hard to meaningfully work using the editor because of this issue… just make it work like it works in every other editor out there (https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/)
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Adilzhan Ismailov
Extremely distracting and breaks the flow when typing any reasonable amount of text
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Anton Dahlgren
Yes annoying problem. I can only move cursor sideways, not move it vertical through text. Have to scroll through long lines in order to get down a few rows on the page
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Ben Chinn
Biggest pain point for me is the inability to fill out properties in a new object with the keyboard. Instead I meed to click on each one to focus on it. Being able to tab through the property fields would shave a lot of time off object creation.
Luca Joos
Merged in a post:
Scrolling down the page with arrow key does not work
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Unknown User
when there is a long checklist on the page and one starts to scroll down using down arrow key the page does not move along with cursor. only way to move page is by using mouse scroll wheel.
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Oliver Kühle
This is such a standard interaction, that needs to be added.
Especially as Capacites supports various keyboard shortcuts, I find it very frustrating to be forced to use my mouse for scrolling.
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Justin Kroes
To illustrate the insanity of arrow navigation, I tested it and summarized the current behavior:
With the up arrow key:
- For single line blocks, navigates to the end of the line
- For multiline blocks navigates to the end of the last line in the block, then to the position directly above on the previous line
With the down arrow key:
- For single line blocks, navigates to the beginning of the line
- For multiline blocks after the beginning of the final line, navigates to the end of the line
The exception to this is when navigating down into a block below, then to this block's second or lower line, then up again. When you navigate up from the second line, the cursor skips the first line and jumps to the end of the final line in the block above.
- This behavior does not apply if you navigate into the block from below
- You can circumvent it by typing the right arrow once on the second line before the up arrow
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