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Hi! Is there support for keyboard shortcuts to navigate cursor when inserting or editing text? I've tried vim-style or nano-style shortcuts but none works.

Currently it's just the arrow keys for navigating around text.

Is it a pain point that others may have shared as well?

Are there any particular behaviours you'd like to see?

For me, the ideal behavior would be like most console apps (and Pentadactyl browser addon :-D) do: invoke $EDITOR for all nontrivial text editing (eg. task titles no, task descriptions yes).

As in, load up vim/nano, then when you save back to taskell?

Precisely that. Could probably be optional behavior, that triggers on a hotkey, so you can do quick inline edits as normal, and pop into editor of choice when needed.

This seems, to me, a better alternative than implementing vim keys.

I'll have a think about that. Might be a bit jarring, but if it was optional then that's a choice folks could make.

Are there any particular behaviours you'd like to see?

Nothing fancy really. Some of my tasks can be quite descriptive and sometimes, I need to edit certain words for example due to typo somewhere in the beginning of the line for example. So using the navigation keys is cumbersome since I can't jump to the beginning (or end) of the title or jump by words to reach it faster. I think for simplicity using Nano's shortucts w/ CTRL + [keys] is sufficient for cursor navigation. No need to have it opened in external editor. Thoughts?

Unfortunately modifier keys really don't work well with Brick (the CLI package taskell is built on top of), which limits what I can do to some extent. Apparently it's because different terminals do things very differently. And I'm not sure I could add it without modifier keys.