Direct Page Break Does Not Work

[d-e-v-esh]

Bug Report 🐛

When we click on the page-break icon, it adds --- in the markdown panel as the page break. But when we directly write --- on the editor then page break doesn't work.

Expected Behavior

Writing --- should add a page break on the editor

Current Behavior

Writing --- doesn't create a page break. It just writes it as it is.

Possible Solution

It would be very convenient if the user doesn't have to touch the mouse and can directly add a page break from the keyboard by entering ---.

If --- gets entered in the middle of the line then the cursor should jump to the next line and make a page break. If the user did this by mistake then he can just backspace once, and we would put him where he was before the page break occurred.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Write --- on the editor

Desktop

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Chrome
• Version 88.0.4324.182 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[dselman]

I've marked this as an enhancement, because in general markdown syntax is not converted to formatted text. You could consider whether it would be more appropriate to add a keyboard hotkey for this instead (consistent with CTRL-B etc used for formatting). Perhaps looking at GDocs or Office 365 will give some inspiration?

[d-e-v-esh]

@dselman That is very true. But there is already a keyboard shortcut assigned to that task. When you go and hover over the Page Break icon, it will show that the shortcut for that is ctrl + enter but that is not working either for some reason. I'm looking into it for quite some time, I will try to find a solution if I can.

[jolanglinais]

Pinging @Michael-Grover on this.

[Michael-Grover]

I agree with Dan. I think fixing the shortcut is a higher priority than this enhancement. I created an issue for the shortcut bug: #263