How can I insert the first line when there is one already.

Sekwan Oh — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:53:56 +0000

Hi all,

This may be a very basic one but I couldn’t find a way to insert the first line when I have already the previous first line.

The very first line is created ok when I press enter from the title line.

However If I do the same thing (type enter from title) the bullet goes below the first line.

The only thing I can do is to drag the bullet that to the first line then it works.

Thank you.

Soren commented

Soren — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:37:11 +0000

Hi Sekwan!

That’s easy – Shift-Enter with the first cell selected. (If you want to create a new cell/line above the present one while editing a cell: Shift-Alt-Enter!). Hope that helps

Sekwan Oh commented

Sekwan Oh — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:26:05 +0000

Hi Soren,

Thanks for the tip. It really helps!

By the way I found one interesting thing.

When the cell in the first line has children cells:

1. Shift-Enter works when the children are collapsed.
2. Shift-Enter doesn’t work when the children of the first cell are expanded.

Is this one intended?

Thank you!

Soren commented

Soren — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:40:46 +0000

Hi Sekwan,

You’re very welcome! What you told does sound kind of funny.

I’m just a happy user, and no expert on this, but to me it always worked with children both expanded/collapsed. I could not reproduce the behavior on versions 355 and 348 (forgot to update that one) of NoteBook, running on Macs with Leopard and Tiger.

Anything special in your cells, or special settings where it doesn’t work? It never works when you have children of the first cell expanded?

I don’t think the behavior is intended – I’m sure the people at Circus Ponies on here would appreciate for you to add a Bug report (Support in the menu above), if one can find out what makes the problem appear!

Sekwan Oh commented

Sekwan Oh — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:16:28 +0000

Hi Soren,

Thank you for your reply.

I just found what’s caused this problem.
My preference for entering was set to be like:

“If the current cell has visible children, pressing return:”
-> Inserts a new cell before its first child

If I change the preference to the alternative one, which is:
->Adds a sibling of the current cell

then Shift+Enter on the first line always works no matter whether it’s expanded or collapsed.

Thanks again. Hope this can be reviewed by developers.

Travis commented

Travis — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:23:58 +0000

Hi Sekwan,
It sounds like you thought this behavior might be strange or improved upon. Just so I can get a better understanding, can you expand upon what you think should be directed to our attention. Thanks for your input.

Travis
Circus Ponies Software, Inc.