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Ability to keep in current column when adding a new line.

Open RobKohr opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am working on scripts for youtube videos, and I often need to create a bunch of lines in a single column. For example, I have a table that looks like this:

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As you can imagine, the center column will have a lot of writing in it, and so I will often press the return key there, and would like to stay in that column when a new row is created (as opposed to jumping back to the first column each time which has the scene numbers).

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be great to have a command or hot key sequence such as shift-enter or control-enter that I can press that will be the same as enter, but keep me in my current column.

Additionally it would be great if that hot key sequence inserted another row so I can just add more content lines right after where I am writing (for example if I am adding more content to scene 2 in the image)

Describe alternatives you've considered I could just have it so the most common column to write in is the leftmost column, but it isn't always the case that I am writing a lot there.

RobKohr avatar Jan 25 '23 21:01 RobKohr

I don't know if this is what you are asking for but you can add
in the table which adds a new line in the same column and row which is seen in the reading view mode. (But yes, that would be nice to have as a core feature)

VictorJermiin avatar Jan 27 '23 15:01 VictorJermiin

I would also love to see this feature.

Basically it should be that when you hit enter it moves down one and stays in the same column. Instead of moving down one row and going to the leftmost column.

That's how it works in excel and google sheets. This video shows what I mean (at the 10 second timestamp) https://youtu.be/wvSUjROcPS8?t=11

RayBB avatar Apr 16 '23 10:04 RayBB