iPhone Editor Wish List

Features
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  • Tap on top of top screen in Markdown editor should scroll to beginning of note. This already works in Preview mode.

  • Select All should be available in Preview mode.

  • Share from Preview mode should share formatted text, not coded text.

  • When I first go into the Markdown edtor, the keyboard is not yet visible. When I scroll to get to the place where I want to begin typing or to paste copied text, the keyboard opens, and I end up being thrown to the bottom of the note. It would be nice if this were an option I could turn off to prevent ending up at the bottom.

  • Similarly, I often (but not always) have problems tapping down at the right point in the text. Often when I tap with my finger, I end up landing somewhere else. I don't know if this is anything that programming can fix, but I mention it.

  • Would like to see compact display of tags like on desktop version or in Evernotes. Or they could be added to the Properties panel.

  • Additional items for the Properties panel:
    Tags
    Word count

  • Would like to see a vertical scroll bar when viewing or editing note.

  • Would like to have control over font size for both “markdown” and “edit” views as Configuration settings. If not actual point sizes, at least small, medium, and large.

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Once again....

React-native does not have a proper editor. Only a faulty text input field.

As soon as there's an editor available for react-native, we will try to use it in Joplin mobile.

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Not sure if anyone tried it for Joplin but there's this: react-native-markdown-editor - npm

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I think this was the beta editor that crashed the Android app completely and didn't work that great on iOS either. But Laurent would know more about it.
I just remember that Laurent looked into several things, none of which really yielded a satisfactory result.

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That makes sense since apparently this is the only RN markdown editor out there.

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Yes that was the one. It's also based on the default RN text input, which is too buggy to build any serious editor on top.

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Can you explain me something, please ? I understand why the lack of a RN editor prevents improvements of the mobile editor mode (e.g. "Tap on top of top screen in Markdown editor should scroll to beginning of note"), but I wonder if it also prevents improvements of the preview mode (e.g. "Increase preview font size"). Aren't the two issues different ? (Sorry if my question is stupid. I just try to understand.)

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