In text editors, you can use modifier keys + up/down arrow to move the current or selected line(s) up or down. I would love the ability to do this to the text within a note in Scapple.
Please add this as a feature request if not already under consideration.
There is already a tool for moving notes around with the keyboard. Refer to §4.2.4, Moving Notes, under the subheading, With the Keyboard. Be sure to make note of the modifiers toward the bottom of that subsection, as just using arrow keys by themselves is more useful for fine-tuning placement.
I meant moving line(s) of text contained within a single note, not the whole note itself.
Example: I have a note with the text:
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
And I wanted to move the third line to the top, giving:
Item 3
Item 1
Item 2
(all within then same note)
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, that’s maybe something we could consider in the future. I’ve recategorised this as a wishlist item.
It is a little complicated by how Scapple’s text editing inside of a note is extremely basic. Without indents or spacing, one is inclined to treat it more like a plain-text file with empty lines between paragraph—except when making a little list. So line movement would be a little complicated by that, in that it feels like it should respect any spacing you add, but avoid assuming that’s what you always want.
Thanks for the consideration.
I thought the way text editors handle it. A paragraph would be a ‘line’ (terminated by CRLF character). Empty line also.
Behaviour such that if the caret was at the bottom of the paragraph (nothing selected), pressing the key combination would shift the current whole paragraph up/down. Any partial or full selection of one or more lines would move all those lines.