It should be possible to carry out basic operations with the keyboard alone. The buggy behaviour happens when transferring existing texts into the Research folder with copy-paste.
How-to:
Outside Scrivener:
select text, copy to clipboard
In Scrivener:
hit Command-N to enter a new text in Research
name new text
expect focus to switch to main panel with cursor at point of pasting clipboard
get annoyed because focus has switched to next item in the Research folder
take hand off keyboard, grab mouse, click on main pane
name new text and hit enter to end editing (hitting tab will take you to the next item in the list, as it does in all Cocoa apps that use the standard outline view as this behaviour is built-in by Apple.
hit ctrl-alt-cmd-E to move focus to the main editor (this is on the new beta, available from the Beta Testing forum; the keyboard shortcuts to navigate between panes is different on the current official release, 1.03, but can be found in the Help file under the section on the View menu).
hit cmd-V
Smile because now you know the shortcuts.
Yes, it should; and Scrivener has some of the most comprehensive keyboard shortcuts out there, I believe.
(Please note that this really belongs in the Technical Support forum as it is not a bug.)
No problem - I definitely recommend downloading the beta from the Beta Testing forum, provided you don’t mind an out-of-date Help file (that’s the main thing preventing the beta from becoming officially 1.1). I would wait until later today, though, as the latest beta was released yesterday and a couple of bugs have been found - I’m just working on fixing the last one right now before uploading a fixed beta later today. Everything else should actually be more stable than the official release.
All the best,
Keith
