I feel that having the text auto-selected upon entering the edit mode presents a hazard. F2 must be followed by a cursor key, or the entire text will be replaced. When I want to edit an item, I usually am not looking to overwrite it completely. I’d prefer to simply have the cursor at the end of the text, with no selection. What do you think?
I’m used to this behavior in other programs, like Excel, but I don’t really have any preference for one or the other…
To start editing without a selection and the cursor at the end, use the keyboard shortcut “ea”. Similarly, to start with no selection and the cursor at the start, use “ei”. These are inspired by VI/VIM. The “i” is for Insert, and the “a” is for Append.
Reference: Checkvist help/reference
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Wow. I thought I knew everything there is about entering the edit mode. I mean, ee or F2 is featured in the hints sidebar, as well as at the very beginning of the Reference. The other two are buried in the Keyboard Shortcuts section, which I admit, I did not study closely. I’m habituated to F2 by other programs, Excel among them.
I’m still struggling with this behaviour. Can we perhaps have an option in Settings, to not have entire contents selected when starting to edit? Having a cursor positioned at the end of the first line would be great… ea and ei are not so great for anyone not used to Vim, plus they do not work on notes.
Hello @rubaboo ,
ea and ei should already work on beta with notes as well. Hope you’ll like it 
Kind regards,
KIR
I had the same feeling about F2 that rubaboo mentioned at the start of this topic (wishing it would not highlight the whole item). I’m happy to have read M_D’s response about ea and ei, those will be very useful for me (I just have to remember the commands).
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