Block keyboard shortcuts: moving block only work once

[maxhoffmann]

Description

When I try Kirby 4’s new keyboard shortcuts in the block field, most of them don’t work and documentation is inaccurate.

Expected behavior

Pressing the keyboard shortcuts listed on the Kirby 4 release page using cmd or ctrl as meta key should work.

Split block works by pressing cmd + enter and moving blocks works with ctrl + shift + up/down. All the other shortcuts don’t work for me, no matter which browser I use. It’s also strange, that the meta key is cmd in one shortcut and ctrl in a different one.

Screenshots

To reproduce

1. Go to an admin page with a block field
2. Select a block
3. Try any of the keyboard shortcuts (except the two working ones mentioned above)
4. Shortcut has no effect

Your setup

Kirby Version: 4.0.3

Your system (please complete the following information)

• Device: MacBook
• OS: macOS 13.6.3 (Ventura)
• Browser: Arc, Safari, Firefox
• Version: latest versions

[distantnative]

@maxhoffmann indeed something is broken there.

The mix between ctrl and cmd/meta is mainly the result that combinations are often used up by the different OS differently. So it's hard to find a set that works consistently everywhere, I fear.

[maxhoffmann]

@distantnative I wouldn’t mind learning to switch between them as long as the documentation is accurate and they work. I was just surprised that they don’t, since these have been one of the features I was really looking forward to in version 4 😄

[bastianallgeier]

Definitely something broken, pretty badly.

Here's a bit of inventory in Firefox on macOS

• CTRL + Backspace works if not in an input
• CTRL + Alt + Up/Down work to extend the selection to the next/previous block
• Meta + Enter works to split a block
• CTRL + J works to merge two blocks
• CTRL + Shift + Up/Down works once to move a block around, but then stops to work.

[gaufde]

I found the same issue and just reported it on the forum before finding this thread: https://forum.getkirby.com/t/keyboard-shortcuts-for-blocks-field-broken/32165/3

It seems like this issue is still there in 4.3.0 and 5.0.0-alpha.1.

Also, are there any plans to add more shortcuts in the future? The most critical one to me would be some way to add a new block without using the mouse. Without that, there isn't really a good workflow for generating content, only editing what is already there. After that, meta + k for hyperlinks and maybe something for superscripts and subscripts would be nice to have, but not as crucial IMO