Shift+Enter no longer puts user into insert mode

[mlucool]

Description

Shift+Enter no longer puts the user into insert mode in the cell below unless its a new cell

Reproduce

Expected behavior

Same as 3.x

Context

Lab@4.1.0

[krassowski]

This is very interesting because I was halfway writing up a bug report on this earlier this week and then realised that is also the case on 3.6.x:

3.6.3	3.6.7

Now also checked 3.5.3 and 3.5.0 - all work the same:

I also checked a local installation with 3.6.5 to rule out interference from extensions on Binder.

Either this changed in an even earlier version, or the new outline ring denoting focus in command mode does something to the brain which makes it feel counter-intuitive that the mode has changed on Shift + Enter.

[krassowski]

I find the fact that the behaviour is different in the last cell odd. I think it might be desirable to make this user-configurable.

[mlucool]

Humm...maybe this has always been like this? Maybe what feels distracting/different is the highlighting around the cell? It's ok to close this given it didn't change

[krassowski]

Maybe what feels distracting/different is the highlighting around the cell?

I concur. I think we should explore different focus indicators, for example making the blue collapser bar to the left of a cell empty if the active cell is not focused.