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Enhance the Enter key: Cursor in parent item splits item #110

Closed rbanks88 closed 3 years ago

rbanks88 commented 3 years ago

When the cursor's in a Parent Item, pressing Enter splits the paragraph at that point, instead of creating a new line on the child level. Everything else in Outliner works great, so thanks!

To Reproduce

  1. Create a parent item with two children
  2. Put cursor in parent item
  3. Hit Return

On my system (Mac Catalina) it splits the line.

Expected behavior Expected it to create a new line on the child level.

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Additional context Since everything else appears to work, it may be something with my system. I've created a Keyboard Maestro macro for a temporary fix, which first goes to the end of the paragraph when you hit Return.

P.S. One other thing... Your default hotkeys for Move list and sublists up/down are Sh Cmd ↑ and ↓. However, those are default Mac shortcuts that select text from the cursor position to start or end of the document, and that's what they did for me. So, I changed them to my Hyperkey: Ctrl Opt Sh Cmd ↑ and ↓ and it worked fine.

vslinko commented 3 years ago

@rbanks88 Hello!

If I understood correctly is not bug, it's feature.

I recorded the behaviour, please check that it is what are you meant. out

Please close the bug If my answer was enough.

rbanks88 commented 3 years ago

I guess your feature is my "bug" :)

When writing, you normally expect return to split a line, but when I'm outlining, the idea is to easily start new outline items. The dedicated app, OmniOutliner, can be set in preferences to start a new outline "row" when you hit Return. To break up an item, you hit Ctrl-Return. It would be great to have a setting to allow either behavior: split the line or start a new line.

Anyway thanks for your great, talented work! I'll close the item now.

Best, Russell

vslinko commented 3 years ago

@rbanks88 I think it's possible to create such setting. Please create a discussion about this idea https://github.com/vslinko/obsidian-outliner/discussions