Use case or problem
Ever since the recent updates brought in rich mouse controls for images (like selection frames, drag handles, and context menus), images don’t really respect normal keyboard text-editing habits in Live Preview anymore.
Before the update, images in Live Preview were treated consistently like inline text strings. Now, the new block-based system breaks some basic, everyday editing functions:
- Adjacent Deletion (Backspace / Delete): Selecting an image and pressing Backspace or Delete used to instantly delete the image link. Now the cursor gets caught or feels clunky trying to wipe it out.
- Clipboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+X / Ctrl+C): Previously, you could highlight an image link and cleanly cut it out of a note with Ctrl+X or copy it with Ctrl+C to paste it elsewhere as text. In the current version, standard text-cutting commands on image blocks frequently fail to execute, require manual mouse selection first, or delete the asset without copying the text string to the clipboard.
- Shift Multi-Select: I don’t remember if this was a prior feature or not, but being able to hold Shift and select multiple images in a file would be really nice. It would be a huge time-saver to be able to copy/cut multiple images at once, or even be able to resize multiple images at the same time.
Proposed solution
Give us a way to make images respect basic keyboard text actions again, or add a toggle in the settings to treat images strictly as text links in Live Preview. Additionally, adding a feature to Shift-select multiple images for bulk actions (like cutting, copying, or resizing) would completely solve the friction.