Keyboard shortcuts for selected blocks

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Visual block syntax for programming languages

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Keyboard shortcuts for selected blocks #1317

Open dethe opened 8 years ago

dethe commented 8 years ago

Above and beyond the shortcuts provide by Cut/copy/Paste ( #900 ) and Undo/Redo, we can also support:

[ ] Delete or Backspace to remove selected block(s)
[ ] Tab to indent step or context, i.e., insert into a Ghost Block ( #1314 )
[ ] If cursor is in an <input>, Tab to move to the next <input>
[ ] Shift-Tab to remove the parent block (dedent) (or should this just move the block out of its parent?)

Undo should be able to reverse any of these.

Any others?

CelticMinstrel commented 8 years ago

Isn't the third one handled by the browser already?

For the fourth one, I'm not sure what's the more intuitive option. A third option would be to "split" the parent block, so that you end up with parent block A (containing everything above the dedented block), then the dedented block, then parent block B (containing everything below the dedented block).

dethe commented 8 years ago

Third one: maybe you're right, I'll test it. Fourth one: It's a puzzler all right.