Keyboard support for moving cursor

[sqbi-q]

I've experienced lack of keyboard support for moving cursor on canvas, for example with arrow keys. There is text string drawing tool, but it only allows for inserting text in one line, beginning from clicked spot - which limits movement.

Feature allowing to draw characters while typing (as in text string) and moving cursor with arrow keys could enhance efficiency of drawing with keyboard. Similar feature exists in Texel, which also supports mouse input in terminal.

On the other hand I am not sure if it wouldn't be against Tart's philosophy of drawing ASCII art in the terminal with your mouse.

[jtdaugherty]

Hi @sqbi-q - thanks for opening this. Adding features along these lines wouldn't be against the philosophy of the tool. If anything the main limitation is my time, since this was a hobby project I created years ago and I don't do much these days to extend it. I'm happy to support people who want to contribute to it, though.

As for your specific requests, I could enable arrow key navigation while editing text pretty easily. I'll see about doing that soon.

Allowing for mouse drawing while editing text would not be nearly as straightforward, but not because it isn't easy to program: more because it is not entirely clear to me that it would be a good idea because then the mouse drawing interaction with the text-in-editing needs to be sensible. I'm just not sure how that could work well, and given that this is a dormant hobby project, I don't feel inclined to spend a ton of time on thinking about the issues that would need to be addressed.