Keyboard cursor dissapears after you cut the whole line (block)

[SirCaptain]

What’s The Bug?

The (keyboard) cursor should always be somewhere. In this gif below, you can see that when I press ctrl-x to cut the line, the (keyboard) cursor disappears. Instead it should go to the end of previous line.

@SirCaptain

How To Reproduce It

1. Write something.
2. Select all of it.
3. Cut it.
4. The cursor disappears.

The Expected Behavior

I expected the cursor to stay in the text block.

Additional Context

Device

Zenbook 15 OLED

OS

linux x64 6.8.7-060807-generic

Anytype Version

0.40.12-alpha

Technical Information

OS version: linux x64 6.8.7-060807-generic
App version: 0.40.12-alpha
Build number: build on 2024-05-02 10:41:01 +0000 UTC at #949ac753f743beede8748733bc8b5d3a37ce0300
Library version: v0.34.0-rc1
Anytype Identity: AB7U28bGbzLryDPj9r8pcnxzCKDXa4s8htabD59q6sUoABfr
Analytics ID: 7e3dd39a-94ae-4633-933b-49f80380b442
Device ID: 12D3KooWGTJMBKmwS269HEXjXpRGUX7J6boC2cWNhys98GimGRgd

[Angelo]

This report has been added to our issue tracker and received by the Development Team.

[Code-Jack]

@Filip

The (keyboard) cursor should always be somewhere.

Yeh, this it how it should be.
This bug or missing feature was already reported or mentioned different times; it causes so much friction every day!

In addition I want to highlight that the cursor should be somewhere from the moment on you open a Page.
This would enable us to jump to the Page’s beginning or end by Ctrl + up/down (without the need to click first with the mouse in one of the lines to get the cursor).

Different actions let the cursor disappear:

1. Opening a Page - there is no cursor.
2. Using Ctrl + x for a whole block.
3. Using Search on a Page and closing it with Esc.
4. Moving a block up (with Ctrl + Shift + up) if there is a Simple Table above it.
   (the table even “eats” the moved block!)
5. Opening and closing (with ESC) the Relations menu.
6. Dito for the three dots menu.
7. Clicking outside of a block.

… and maybe some other actions

[Filip]

@Code-Jack

This bug or missing feature was already reported or mentioned different times; it causes so much friction every day!

Was it reported in a separate bug report somewhere already or not?
Because the reason why I created this bug report is because I couldn’t find an existing one already.

[Code-Jack]

Your report is specific for the dissappearing cursor after using Ctrl + x for a whole block.

But the more general fact that the cursor is often nowhere was reported often.
I mentioned it in this Bug Report:

Editor: jump to start or end of the page, by using the arrow keys, not always work

What’s The Bug? We can jump to the end of a Page by using the key combination Ctrl + “arrow down”. Same thing with Ctrl + “arrow up” for jumping to the beginning of the Page. But there is a bug: – It works only if the cursor is placed in a textline, so that there is a blinking cursor visible. – If no block is focused, because you’ve clicked with the mouse somewhere outside of a block (but still inside of the page off course), the key combinations don’t work. How To Reproduce It Open a Page…

And more “in passing”, not in a separate bug report, it was mentioned here:

Pages never open on the cursor's last position

What’s The Bug? Half a bug, half a missing feature: At the moment I work on a very huge page (nearly as long as a book), which I need to close often for doing anything else, then reopen it. What annoys: Each time I reopen the Page, the position is somewhere in the middle for no reason. Also the cursor is nowhere placed, that’s why it isn’t possible to perform Ctrl + “arrow down key” to jump to the end position where I was last time as I closed the Page. How To Reproduce It Open a large Pag…

And here:

Missing Keyboard navigation concept - Block Edit mode, Text edit mode, Highlights

Yes, I completely agree with you. But this has nothing to do with the ESC key’s behavior. The problem we suffer is half a bug and half a missing feature: Anytype often doesn’t show the cursor at all. It’s not simply invisible, but it is nowhere at all! It also has ended the edit mode. Best example is opening the page. Or doing a search and closing the search box. The cursor is simply nowhere and typing has no effect at all. For that reason it’s not even possible to jump to the Page’s end…

And here:

Basic editor experience. Help needed!

My ninth suggestion: No longer a mouse’s action needed after creating a Page. See what happens: Goto a Collection and create a new Page. Open the Page (why does it need a mouse click?) → The cursor is now nowhere in the opened Page. You can’t directly write. It’s also impossible to insert a new (first) line by using the cursor down key. You must use the mouse before you can write! Why is it so? Perfect would it be this way: After finishing the Page’s name in the Collection’s grid by p…

[Angelo]

This issue has been fixed by the Development Team and will be implemented in an upcoming release.