Confusing behavior in moving folded items

Beta Panda Bug Reports
1

Testing version: Version 1.0 (1648) (Mac)

What were you doing:
Moving a folded set of bullets in a bullet list

  1. Start:
- Parent 1
	- Child 1
- Parent 2
	- Child 2
  1. Fold at Parent 1
  2. Move Down on Parent 1

What did you expect to happen:

The new document should be:

- Parent 2
	- Child 2
- Parent 1
	- Child 1

but with Parent 1 still folded.

What happened:

The new document is:

- Parent 2
- Parent 1
	- Child 1
	- Child 2

with Parent 1 folded — the first parent has “stolen” the children of the second, and captured them under its fold.

I believe I understand why this happens:
Move down moves the whole folded block down a single line, past Parent 2 but before Child 2. The folding of the parent node then is reinterpreted to capture all children newly below it.

However, it is very surprising and confusing behavior in practice.

2

Hello,

yes, this is the intended behavior for the line-moving tool. I think your expectations are based on a list structure instead of line/paragraph structure like what happens in most outline or list-based apps. This might be eventually another tool called “logic block moving tool” (too long) or “smart moving tool” (better).

Thanks for your feedback.

3

I do indeed want subtree move as an option in general.

Perhaps confusion in this case could be reduced at least a little by unfolding the node as soon as it swallowed any new children?

4

I don’t think this is the expected behavior in this case, but I do think we can at least try to make more obvious what’s happening in this situation.