Tracking: Writing and Editing Flow / Block Editor Core Polish

[ellatrix]

More to come... We should also triage all the feature labels.

Multi selection (more)

• Multiple blocks: Keep all text formatting icons #27221
• Can’t select multiple blocks at a time on iOS #16206
• Multi-selection: faulty click-and-drag text selection at edges and across blocks #53128
• MultiSelectionInspector: incorrect number of words when partial blocks are selected #60025
• Number of blocks selected (when using container blocks) is inaccurate or misleading #56068
• Writing flow: deleting multiple blocks inconsistently requires double deletion #52745
• Multi selection: Shift+Arrow stops working after selection becomes full. #63259
• RichText 'steals' back the focus after using the select all command #58788
• Copying a partial unmergable block has no visible effect (and copy fails) #54193
• Partial multi selection: undo should restore selection in correct place #39456
• Triple click selects multiple block in Chrome and Safari #64451

Pointer

• In-between Inserter: can't scroll over it #63260
• Toolbar Behaves Differently When Fixed vs. Floating Contextually For Paragraph Block Only #9063

Keyboard (more)

• Separator, Code: don't require Enter for shortcut #63654
• Up/down keyboard navigation jumps horizontally #44753
• Writing Flow: Shift + down-arrow key to select across spacer block selects one too many blocks #53674
• iOS (web): keyboard doesn't start capitalised (uppercase) #63261
• Cmd+A (select all) does not work when all text is formatted #63262
• Writing flow: select next block on Enter key #63484
• Firefox: Pressing Up arrow takes you two lines up, if cursor is at beginning of second line of paragraph #34215
• Forward deleting empty paragraph before a list (or other block types) #21558
• Some Mac keyboard shortcuts work unexpectedly across blocks #9880
• List block: Caret moves to the end of the list item inconsistently #62224
• Backspace at start should transform block to paragraph first #16435
• List Block: Create a list item when users insert a hyphen #56173
• Quote: backspace in a nested list should lead to a default block #59709
• Forward delete from empty block selects previous block #64235

Drag 'n' drop (more)

• Expose before/after in drag and drop experience #54952
• Drag and Drop: allow dragging image/full text/multi selection directly #63267
• Unifying drag n drop, "move to" and clipboard (copy/cut/paste) #29931
• Cannot drag and scroll with the touchpad/scrollwheel #23491
• Images: Support for drag-and-drop multiple images onto image block #9783
• No drop indicator appears when dragging a file into an empty post or block list #44064
• Show a modal when dropping a file outside the dropzone #44292
• While moving a block: Show border and block name of hovered blocks #24750
• Automatic scrolling while dragging is not intuitive #24770
• Drag & Drop seems to be broken in Firefox when Preferences > Appearance is switched to “Display button labels” #29511
• Improve UX of "Move To" option  #35262
• click-and-hold highlighted text to reposition it #3339

List (more)

• Cannot Tab to indent for multi-selected list items
• List: deleting sub items requires deleting twice #40979
• Forward deleting empty paragraph before a list (or other block types) #21558
• List: Deleting an empty item at the top of a (malformed) list reshuffles the block #55757
• List Block: deleting an empty list block at the top of a list deletes all items within it #56223
• List block: Caret moves to the end of the list item inconsistently #62224
• Indent/Outdent toolbar buttons: show shortcut in tooltip #61716
• Indented list item of ordered list now creates an unordered list item  #45754

Quote (more)

• Quote: backspace in a nested list should lead to a default block #59709
• Quote: reduce steps to take to add citation #61209
  • Consider showing quote as single block if it has only one paragraph (can this be generalised)?

Image & Gallery (more)

• Gallery Block: Difficult to "Add image" when existing image is selected #47200

Paste (more)

• Google Forms charts copying not persisting (when copied from Chrome) #60811
• Safari – pasting text into title doesn't work as expected #51047
• Raw Handling: unexpected results when pasting table with list from Google Docs #45774
• Raw Handling: Paste from MS Excel no longer creates a table block #42570
• Heading unexpectedly loses formatting when copy and pasting #48040
• List block: pasting a single (Markdown) item from a list converts item to a paragraph #33312
• List block: copy/paste individual block results in inconsistent experience #52743
• Raw handling: Pasting from Google Doc doesn't recognize Markdown formatted code #32917
• Cannot paste Excel tables into WordPress #63241
• Pasting an image onto the Media + Text block is broken #56062
• Gutenberg incorrect paste of list text into list block #26713
• Demo content: paste not working properly after selecting all blocks #22339
• Pasted search results title is treated as plain text #56444

Transforms (more)

• Audit block transforms #63635
• Verse Block: Change to Quote Block or Pullquote Block #30775
• Details block: add transform from any block type #63422
• Grouping a single Quote block transforms it (instead of grouping it) #58042
• Preserve caption when converting Image Block to Media & Text Block #22478
• Columns: Transform to Group does not transform, but group #52857

Convert to Blocks (more)

• Paragraphs in Classic block lose ID during conversion #63022

Navigation/select mode

• Navigation mode: strange arrow key behaviour in nested blocks #30155

Rich Text

• Text formatting applying to individual characters #38703
• Text continues to be hyperlinked after removing a link #16627

UI

• Restore the terms 'Permalink' and 'Slug' in the PostURL user interface #61196
• Can't use arrow down to move to end of link input.
• Popover may go offscreen on small screens.
• Move legacy meta boxes to toggle #59242
• Block editor: placeholders: try admin shadow #33494
• Adding a link url via copy/paste doesn't work on previously formatted text #63434
• Paragraph Block covered by keyboard on post/page editor when working on Mobile #63844

[ktmn]

Pointer
In-between Inserter: can't scroll over it #63260

Maybe worth mentioning - I don't think I've used that inserter ever. When I get to the editor for the first time I turn off full screen, enable top toolbar and make the list view always open. If there was a preference to disable this inserter I would love to add it to the list of things to configure as well.

Not that the inserter is inherently bad, it's just that my preference is to insert a block before/after the selected block and use the / prefix to find the block I want (or paste the blocks I already have in the clipboard), rather than guess where I need to hover and wait for the inserter to appear (or sometimes not appear at all, for some reason) and then open the block selection popover.

It's no doubt useful for most people, but given that I'm never using it, whenever it appears it's always an unwanted experience. Doesn't bother me enough to like add custom CSS to hide it, but if there was a toggle I'd use it. Seems like it could skip doing some work as well if it was disabled:

gutenberg/packages/block-editor/src/components/block-list/use-in-between-inserter.js

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if ( isInBetweenInserterDisabled ) {

[ellatrix]

@ktmn Honestly, I never use it either. But I also mostly just write text. If I need to add a block, I just select a block and press Enter. It would be great if others that do use it could give feedback. For those of use that don't use it, it really gets in the way of editing posts.

[mtias]

I'd be fine exploring a preference around this. I was watching some user test where people really relied on the visible sibling inserter, so I don't think it can be off by default. The slash inserter will remain a power use feature.

Side note, but we need to really make some progress on the "setup workflow" to expose some of these preferences (top toolbar, always open panel, text buttons, etc) since it can drastically improve the experience for some users.

[ellatrix]

The slash inserter will remain a power use feature.

I wasn't talking about the slash inserter btw (I never use that one), but the empty paragraph inserter. But yes, I think it's useful in certain cases, but maybe not so much in between paragraphs of text.

[ellatrix]

Also worth noting that the in-between inserter can be very random: it only works between blocks that have margin between them. In some tricky places like top/bottom or blocks closer together, it just doesn't work. Maybe we need to trigger it even when at the edge of the block, but in a way that doesn't interrupt text blocks.