Fsnotes: [REQ] Ability to delete the note you're currently editing

[gingerbeardman]

From: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/issues/315#issuecomment-409561580

Also see: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/issues/303

Cmd+Backspace should delete note being edited when note has focus.

Currently it is disabled.

[peavine]

The shortcut key to delete a note varies depending on whether the preference option "Focus in editor when select note" is enabled and whether the focus is in the notes list or editor. Thus:

1) Preference option "Focus in editor when select note" - enabled
Focus - notes list
Shortcut to delete note - Command-Option-Backspace

2) Preference option "Focus in editor when select note" - enabled
Focus - editor
Shortcut to delete note - Command-Option-Backspace

3) Preference option "Focus in editor when select note" - disabled
Focus - notes list
Shortcut to delete note - Command-Backspace

4) Preference option "Focus in editor when select note" - disabled
Focus - editor
Shortcut to delete note - None (instead first move focus to notes list then use Command-Backspace).

It makes sense that Command-Backspace should delete the note in situation 4 but that shortcut is already in use to delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.

[gingerbeardman]

I usually use Backspace rather than Delete. Are they interchangeable in these circumstances?

[peavine]

It had been my understanding that Apple defines the backspace key as the delete key? The FSNotes shortcut readme appears to take this approach. I don't believe they are interchangeable.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

[gingerbeardman]

Interesting, it seems that at some point since my keyboard was new they unified backspace and delete.

My keyboard has both backspace and delete (which interestingly has the chunky arrow pointing the other way) and looks a bit like this:

For a while they had the words delete on both keys.

But today they have a chunky backwards arrow, and a chunky forwards arrow:

[peavine]

It was always so simple in the PC world--there was a backspace key and a delete key and everyone knew which did what. Anyways, just to clarify, I'll change delete to backspace in what I wrote above.

[gingerbeardman]

Indeed, "when I was young..."