With most text editing apps, holding Control and left or right arrow moves the cursor to the beginning of the next or previous word. (I’m seeing that right now, writing this post). With Obsidian (on Windows 10 at least), Ctrl-left-arrow takes the cursor to the next beginning of a word but Ctrl-right-arrow goes to the next end. Just a small thing but it means you always have to think about where you are, whether you are ahead of or behind the space character.
Is there any good reason for this or should it be brought in line with most other app behaviour?
I guess it’s a “geek thingy” … a lot of IDE works like this, jumping to the end/beginning of the word. So, Word as a “text processing tool” works as you expected, and VS Code as a “program language processing tool” behaves as Obsidian.
My guess is that - the dev team is the majority of developers and not writers
Thanks. So there is a kind of reason for it.
It might be nice to have the option of either. Using it as a writer when copying and pasting I’m forever inserting or deleting spaces because it behaves differently depending on whether you came from in front or behind. I’d prefer consistency so these processes can become automatic.
Anyone else have a view?
I suggest you head to Feature Request, part of the forum, and open a new post about this idea. It is good, and the Obsidian team is open to any good idea.
… a lot of IDE works like this, jumping to the end/beginning of the word. So, Word as a “text processing tool” works as you expected, and VS Code as a “program language processing tool” behaves as Obsidian.
