# Bug: Word navigation across highlighted words doesn't work

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/bug-word-navigation-across-highlighted-words-doesnt-work/19289>\
**Category:** Lettera\
**Created:** [June 18, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bug-word-navigation-across-highlighted-words-doesnt-work/19289 "2026-06-18T18:18:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![torarnv](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/torarnv/32/7976_2.png) [@torarnv](https://community.bear.app/u/torarnv)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bug-word-navigation-across-highlighted-words-doesnt-work/19289/1 "2026-06-18T18:18:24Z")

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Love the app! 🤩

One thing: I frequently use ⌥+right / ⌥+left to navigate across words. This works well in Lettera for most content, but for highlighted words (==word==), Lettera moves the cursor into the markdown instead of jumping over the word.

Would be nice if Lettera semantically treated this as a styled word, the same way e.g. bold and italic, and navigates past it, and only “enters” the markdown through non-modifier left/right cursor navigation.

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