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Feature request: add shortcuts

Open jay-eleven opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

It would be great if:

  • The square where the letter will be placed would have be highlighted somehow, maybe an extra bold border: image
  • the RIGHT arrow key would move the input cursor to the right
  • the LEFT arrow key would move the input cursor to the left
  • the TAB key would delete all letters in the current turn
  • the SPACE key would shuffle letters entered (but not submitted yet) in the current turn
  • the DOWN arrow key would instantly copy green squares from past turns to the current turn: image
  • the UP arrow would move copy green letters to their positions and yellow letters in the order they were found (or alpha or random sort): image

This might be in total conflict with how hello wordl collects input from the user though... 🤷🏻‍♂

jay-eleven avatar Jan 30 '22 21:01 jay-eleven

I'm not too interested in adding shortcuts like this: I think linear editing and backspace, like Wordle has, is basically sufficient, and buttons to scramble/copy/… would only complicate things. However, if many people want something like this, I could be convinced otherwise.

I do really like the visual for your DOWN shortcut. I wonder if some players would find it useful to (have a setting that lets them) see faint copies of known green letters? Like so:

image

For now, I'll leave this open for others to chime in with shortcut ideas.

lynn avatar Feb 09 '22 15:02 lynn

Your fainted letters behind a setting idea sounds great!

jay-eleven avatar Feb 20 '22 23:02 jay-eleven