Shift + Arrow keys (and combinations) should work even with block boundaries faded out

[jasmussen]

Steps to reproduce:

• Set focus in a text block. Start typing. Note the block boundaries fade out.
• Hold shift, press left arrow to select in that direction.

Expected result: block boundaries fade in and you select one character leftwards.

Actual result: block boundaries fade in.

It's a bit hard to see in that GIF. Sometimes you do select one character leftwards but that selection is immediately unset.

[ellatrix]

Maybe I'm not understanding it correctly, but you wanted the boundaries to show when text is selected right?

[jasmussen]

Maybe I'm not understanding it correctly, but you wanted the boundaries to show when text is selected right?

Yes absolutely! That part is working.

The problem is that as I'm writing text, using just the keyboard, every once in a while I'll want to delete a few characters, and I'll hold shift, press left, and delete. Only here, I have to press left twice to select a single character.

Try the following in a normal text editor, then in the gutenberg editor, to see the difference:

1. type a little
2. hold shift, press left

In the normal text editor, the above will select one character. In gutenberg, currently, it doesn't select anything. You have to press left twice.

[spocke]

Right it should just skip the invisible character we have there on shift currently we don't override shift/ctrl combinations of selection. This whole feature is all about overriding everything a browser does natively when it comes to selections so I guess there is more cases to handle.

[jasmussen]

Just to clarify, I didn't want to suggest this was an issue with the inline boundaries specifically, but rather with the basic text block as a whole in gutenberg. I don't think it's a tinymce issue, actually.

[ellatrix]

@jasmussen Is this still an issue? I can't reproduce in master.

[jasmussen]

You're right, this seems addressed! Thanks 🎉