Hidden feature (or bug) discovered: Moving blocks in TOC hierarchy moves block in original position permanently

[acsr]

Today I dragged and dropped by accident a TOC item in a TOC that referenced just a particular block on the page only.

Form: {{renderer :tocgen, ((63988e4a-6886-4ccd-ad6f-c4232c4775ce)), 2}}

Behaviour detected

• I moved a level 2 subitem from inside toplevel last item into mid of first item.q
• When checking the original block the block was relocated toi the position in hierarchy the dragged item now resides in the TOC.
• Moving the item back to its origin via TOC also worked.

I did not scan the changelogs or code comments to find it mentioned there.

Nice Part

This feature is not mentioned in the docs but quite useable to restructure large outlines while keeping a birds eye view without collapsing the actual blocks first.

Pitfalls

• Because it is not a documented feature, no one cares and it might vanish by accident
• Because it is not documented it can cause a serious mess if do not recognise such a change and miss to immediately undo it.

Suggestion

Reproduce if I am right and include it in the docs!

I love your plugin!

[sethyuan]

Hi @acsr , thanks for the report. This feature is indeed already documented in README, maybe not in a very prominent way.

I'm glad you find it useful. Depending where you're dropping the item, you can place the block "before", "after" or "inside of" another block.

BTW, if you find yourself doing a drag and drop by accident or you placed the block wrong, you can always do a normal undo to revert it.