lewish/asciiflow

Text Tool gets Insert Mode in addition to Overwrite Mode

porg opened this issue · 1 comments

porg commented

Feature Proposal

AsciiFlow - Text Tool gets Insert Mode in addition to Overwrite Mode

Use Cases

  • Ofc overall overwrite mode is the right mode for an ASCII Art software in general
    • But sometimes you may want to correct text by normal text insertion
  • Doing that with an overwrite mode can be quite tedious:
    • Move text with the move tool
    • Then type in text in newly free blank postion
    • Notice you have a few blanks to few or too many
    • Move text with the move tool
    • … until you finally got it.
  • Or export, paste into other text editor, perform insertions there, then clear all and paste back.
    • … also an interrupted not so smooth workflow.

So having an insert mode, would definitely pay off for some situations.

porg commented
  • Or as all other tool shortcuts are bound to the alt key, feel free to bind alt-i to toggling "insert mode" on/off.
  • alt-o is already proposed by me for an upcoming "oval" tool,
    see section "Tool shortcuts" in #238