Ability to join and split lines with keyboard shortcuts
A feature I very frequently used in some other text editors, for cleaning up text for archival in markdown without arbitrary hard-coded line breaks, is the ability to quickly combine/join lines with the Ctrl+J
shortcut, or split a line into multiple lines (at the current cursor/column's position) with Ctrl+Shift+J
.
When joining lines for example, this lets you reassemble a whole paragraph in one operation, instead of needing to put the text cursor at the end of each line, hit the Delete
key, reposition yourself at the end of the next line, and repeat that tedious process endlessly. With the "join lines" shortcut approach, you don't need your cursor to be at a very precise position on a line/paragraph to be able to accomplish your goal.
It's a great time saver in all sorts of day-to-day situations; for example, cleaning up text that was copied from a PDF or plaintext email.
While I'm not in a position to be able to contribute the code for this in Apostrophe, I found this piece of code that is the plugin that provided that functionality in Gedit; maybe this can serve as inspiration to make it easier for someone who would like to try replicating this feature in Apostrophe?