MacOS keyboard hotkeys for text selection doesn't work in plugin's Tree mode

[paolosimone]

MacOS keyboard hotkeys for text selection doesn't work in plugin's Tree mode

[paolosimone]

Hi @originalrusyn, thanks again for choosing this plugin and for your feedback!

Unfortunately it's not possible to implement exactly your proposal because:

• in general the text is read-only so there isn't a cursor to move around like in IDEs
• in Tree mode in particular the text is dynamically fragmented across several html components (that's what makes it fast and easy to navigate)

But I agree that it would be nice to have a shortcut to quickly select a value such as a UUID in Tree mode, so in #37 I introduced:

• shift + left arrow: select node key
• shift + right arrow: select node value
• command + a: select whole line
  • this one is a bit buggy in chrome because it will add an extra newline when pasting to another editor

Again, expanding selection across multiple lines would not work as intended due to the complex DOM structure.

Hope you'll find it useful!

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As an extra suggestion, in case you need to copy-paste several UUIDs you could leverage the JQ filtering and the Raw view.

Example: to copy all ids from a list of json objects

[{"id": 1, "field": "value_1"}, {"id": 2, "field": "value_2"}]

1. command + shift + f: goto JQ filter
2. insert map(.id) and hit enter
3. command + i: switch to raw view
4. command + 0: focus text area
5. command + a: copy text