Allow distinguishing between "cursor inside/outside inline code" (same as for links)

[neongreen]

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Currently, if you are at the end of a link, you can press Right Arrow once to "escape" it and type outside of the link. The link is highlighted when I'm inside it, but not when I'm outside. This is very convenient.

It would be great to have the same behavior for inline code. The only other editor I know that does this is the one used by Bitbucket. In this demo, note how I can escape the <code> merely by pressing Right Arrow.

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[neongreen]

Also note how in Bitbucket the cursor position doesn't change when I escape <code> — it is still visually inside the code. I wonder if it's possible to make it visually outside in CKEditor.

[Reinmar]

👍 We've been discussing enabling two-step caret movement for <code>s. That's the solution used for links and we can have the same for <code> elements. Would that be fine?

BTW, I think you can enable it already by using https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/api/module_engine_utils_bindtwostepcarettoattribute.html#static-function-bindTwoStepCaretToAttribute.

[neongreen]

Sounds awesome

[oleq]

I stumbled upon this issue a few times while using the https://github.com/ckeditor/github-writer. I think this is pretty annoying and we should finally address the problem.

[Reinmar]

I don't think that we'll manage this in the current iteration because we have a full backlog already. But it's on our short priority list so it'd end up in June's iteration.

Unless, of course, you wanna help us ;)

[tomalec]

There are two new PRs for this change:

• Attribute highlight code extracted from link to typing Move attribute element highlight code from link to typing #7546
• 2SCM made to work with two steps and for multiple attributes Refactor the way 2SCM support multiple attributes. Enable it for code. #7577 - this is still a draft, as I need to update Docs and Guides.

Both are ready for review.