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You need to double-cursor to move across an inline slug, which makes editing "blank" lines in NWE confusing
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Description

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Start with a simple, multi-paragraph page:
Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2
  1. Place the cursor at the end of the first line/paragraph.
  1. Press the (right) arrow key to advance to the second paragraph

Expected results:
You have to press the arrow key once to get into the blank line, and once to get out of the blank line/to the start of Paragraph 2.

Actual results:
You have to press the arrow key once to get into the blank line, and twice to get out of the blank line/to the start of Paragraph 2.

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• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Apr 13 2017, 4:28 PM
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Dvorapa subscribed.Apr 13 2017, 8:14 PM
Esanders subscribed.EditedApr 16 2017, 8:51 PM

Looks like this is an issue with the inline slug in the empty paragraph, pinging @dchan

Esanders added a subscriber: dchan.Apr 16 2017, 8:51 PM
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Cursor behavior is strange on blank lines to You need to double-cursor to move across an inline slug, which makes editing "blank" lines in NWE confusing.Apr 18 2017, 7:09 PM
Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Low priority.
Jdforrester-WMF set the point value for this task to 8.
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR1: Releases on the VisualEditor board.
Esanders added a comment.May 3 2017, 5:36 PM

We may be able to disable a bunch of the slugging features in source mode as we know there will never be annotations. This will still behave like this in visual mode though.

matmarex mentioned this in T188837: Extra hidden character seems to be at the beginning/end of the document, causing odd left/right key behaviour.Mar 14 2018, 10:15 PM
matmarex subscribed.Mar 14 2018, 10:24 PM

I would like this to be prioritized higher, it really makes for a jarring text editing experience.

matmarex mentioned this in T185590: Invisible character at end of line through copy&paste.May 16 2018, 2:38 PM
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