edit post tags in-line, and insert tags with cursor
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stylo
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hello, sorry if this has already been posted but i couldn't find anything with search.
oftentimes when I'm editing a draft, especially in mobile view, I want to write lengthy sotto-voce comments in the tags. This can be frustrating because it's easy to accidentally delete a tag. Furthermore, once a tag is deleted, it throws off the flow of a sentence written in the tags. Finally, any typos noticed after a tag is finished, including typos that automatically end a tag (such as commas), result in having to fully delete and redraft the tag (which breaks tag order as mentioned).
My idea will hopefully be fairly straightforward: to implement a feature to 1) edit tags in-line, and 2) allow new tags to be inserted in-between existing ones by clicking/tapping to place a cursor.
I have mocked up what this might look like:
The cursor does not necessarily obsolete the current behavior of adding tags at the end of the tag list, but it provides an alternative.
An alternative to feature #2 is to allow tags to be reordered with drag and drop, but I imagine that is harder to implement and may lead to frustration with accidental drag/drop.
stylo
hello, sorry if this has already been posted but i couldn't find anything with search.
oftentimes when I'm editing a draft, especially in mobile view, I want to write lengthy sotto-voce comments in the tags. This can be frustrating because it's easy to accidentally delete a tag. Furthermore, once a tag is deleted, it throws off the flow of a sentence written in the tags. Finally, any typos noticed after a tag is finished, including typos that automatically end a tag (such as commas), result in having to fully delete and redraft the tag (which breaks tag order as mentioned).
My idea will hopefully be fairly straightforward: to implement a feature to 1) edit tags in-line, and 2) allow new tags to be inserted in-between existing ones by clicking/tapping to place a cursor.
I have mocked up what this might look like:
The cursor does not necessarily obsolete the current behavior of adding tags at the end of the tag list, but it provides an alternative.
An alternative to feature #2 is to allow tags to be reordered with drag and drop, but I imagine that is harder to implement and may lead to frustration with accidental drag/drop.
thanks!
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