Tracking: Writing Experience

[annezazu]

Writing in WordPress, whether a latest post or new page, needs to be seamless and enjoyable–the tooling should aid creativity rather than get in the way. Blocks with all of their variations, design tools, and transforms should make you feel empowered. Let’s focus on continuing to polish this experience. If you have items you’d like to have considered, comments are strongly encouraged. What’s shared here is meant to be a step forward rather than wholly comprehensive. Expect iterations and updates as the weeks go on.

Enhancing writing flow

• Arrow keys won't move to next paragraph until after scrolling down #44055
• Columns block: difficult to exit  #52774
• Highlighted text is not always deleted when pressing "delete" key on keyboard #48747
• Improve writing flow for lists by capturing list item toolbars #53306
• List: Can't italicize across multiple list items #53197
• Safari: Shift+click can't select across text blocks #44755
• Writing Flow: moving up or down on empty paragraph breaks #53333
• Writing flow: cannot keyboard delete paragraphs with preceding Columns/Group #45436
• List View: Allow Escape key to deselect blocks if blocks are selected #48708
• Toolbar loses anchoring point when merging lists #53346
• List: improve splitting and combining lists #46039
• Verse: Unable to exit via enter #52773
• Writing flow: hitting backspace causes block to lose heading when prior block is empty #16436
• Lists > Editing flow : typing is getting slower and managing nested lists generates unattended behaviors / content losts #53353
• Writing Flow: up arrow can't traverse template part or synced pattern #55177
• List: allow indenting with Tab  #45404
• Can't Arrow Up into empty Columns Block #51554
• Autocomplete: Must move inside iFrame for slash block insert #47767
• Drag & Drop: Not possible to move block at the very end #55474
• 🚧 List: deleting sub items requires deleting twice #40979
• Forward deleting empty paragraph before a list (or other block types) #21558
• Multiple blocks: Keep all text formatting icons #27221
• Multi-selection: faulty click-and-drag text selection at edges and across blocks #53128
• Up/down keyboard navigation jumps horizontally #44753
• Writing flow: deleting multiple blocks inconsistently requires double deletion #52745
• Writing Flow: Shift + down-arrow key to select across spacer block selects one too many blocks #53674
• List: Deleting an empty item at the top of a list reshuffles the block #55757
• List Block: deleting an empty list block at the top of a list deletes all items within it #56223
• MultiSelectionInspector: incorrect number of words when partial blocks are selected #60025
• ❓ List: Hitting delete at the beginning of the last list item doesn't exit the block #53195

Improving pasting

• Raw Handling: List pasted from Word gets lost #46832
• Raw Handling: Text with colon incorrectly interpreted as a link #24895
• Links: consider automatically hyperlinking upon insertion #54261
• 🚧 Raw Handling: unexpected results when pasting table with list from Google Docs #45774
• 🚧 Paragraph: paste contents at cursor point rather than as new blocks #53076
• 🚧 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 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

Add E2E tests

• Multiple block select cut and paste failing #53774 (comment)

Legend

• 🚧: Has PR, work-in-progress
• ℹ️: Needs more information
• ❓: Needs decision

[ellatrix]

I'm going to tick items when there's a solution but still needs approval.

[alexstine]

@annezazu Just added this one to your list: #47767.

This is a serious bug that apparently we only fixed on Windows due to the lack of testing by me on Mac. Need to fix this regression for all screen readers. Really sad I missed this.

[fabiankaegy]

@annezazu thanks for creating this tracking issue :)

I think #52018 may be a good addition

[annezazu]

@fabiankaegy that seems a bit outside of the base writing experience. I'm going to leave it out for now but I do think it's worth addressing.

[fabiankaegy]

@annezazu no worries if you feel it shouldn't be tracked here. The reason I mentioned it for writing experience is because the writing experience when you are within a content only locked context for the list isn't great since new list items cannot be added :) but I can see how it is outside the scope of what is tracked here

[colorful-tones]

It looks like #53197 got closed as a duplicate of #27221. Perhaps we can consider replacing it in the list above please @annezazu ?

[annezazu]

Yes! Adding in. Thanks for pointing out.

[getdave]

Noticing that there are a lot of items in the todo here. Could it be helpful to get a sense of what we might be targeting for 6.6, or perhaps a level of prioritisation to aid contributors in determining what to work on?

At first glance these seem pretty important:

• Heading unexpectedly loses formatting when copy and pasting #48040
• Multiple block select cut and paste failing #53774
• List block: copy/paste individual block results in inconsistent experience #52743
• List: deleting sub items requires deleting twice #40979
• Up/down keyboard navigation jumps horizontally #44753
• List Block: deleting an empty list block at the top of a list deletes all items within it #56223

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