Cursor Placement When Editing

Feature Request
1

When I click a card, the edit panel opens with the cursor at the end. I then have to find where I actually want to edit.

Is it possible that clicking a specific point in the card to open the edit panel with the typing cursor placed at that exact position?

2

That makes sense, I’ll look into whether it’s possible. Might hard to sync the front and back of the card up because they have diff txt flows

3

I made a beta of this but I don’t think I like it for the following reasons:

  • it causes an issue with sticky cards when you feel like you need px/character perfect click accuracy.
  • it actually added more friction to my editing because every time i clicked a card i had to first find my cursor. if i clicked perfectly, the insertion point on the front of the card doesn’t match the one on the back because of the different layouts.

:telephone: you can try the beta out for yourself at https://deploy-preview-721--kinopio-client.netlify.app/

i tested with regular text cards, and text + image cards

4

it did felt really bad on sticky cards

But it DID work pretty great after i

  • disable sticky card
    +
  • make the layouts of the back similar to the front

especially on a big card. I think it would be nice if the front and edit window/back of the card look same. it will save times.

I still think it has big potential in long-form writing. Thank you so much for taking this feature request so seriously, really appreciate your effort.

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5

that makes sense. I wouldn’t want to enable it by default because sticky cards are on by default.

But I’m also reticent to include it as a special setting because it’s hard to explain, and I want to keep the number of special UI settings down. Any alternative ideas on how I could include this?

6

the 2nd image with the card text matching textarea wouldn’t really work in cases where the card had web/image urls or markdown - at least without a huge redesign text editor redesign which is way out of scope

7

I think text matching text area is only needed in regular cards that does not have markdown, web/image, or special font.
As this feature (imo) is mainly a QOL improvement for longform, pure text writing. (BTW, i think I disable sticky card when i started to try writing long paragrath on kinopio. Since I need to slide my cursor across a wordy card to help me read.)

The question regarding UI alternative is a hard one, I have to think about it.

8

ya it’s best for long-form text only, but also you wouldn’t want cursor behaviour to be variable based on the Kind of card it is right? That would also be confusing to explain

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9

Yes.

I think deviation in cursor placement cause by markdown or pic is ok for me. But this should be a decision made by community.

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