Move focus to next block after deleting one

[LUCAS_Liu]

in reading mode, the current block is highlighted, then we can move focus with up and down arrow key.
then, if we like to delete a block, we can simply press BACKSPACE, then we may want to continue the navigation with up and down. however, the focus is lost after deletion.

[ChrisVn]

Thanks for reporting this.
At the moment there are still many situations where you “lose” the current focus. This is a little bit annoying because it it interrupts your workflow.
E.g. when you collapse an outline with the shortcut you also lose the focus.

I also reported similar problems here:

LOGseq gets confused itself - where is the cursor - am I in edit mode?

(v0.2.10, Windows, desktop) Initial situation: You have 2 TODOs one below the other and the cursor is in the second todo (edit mode). If you now click on the check box of the first todo (“done”), LOGseq is (at least for me) in an unclear state. If you then press the keys “up”, for example, LOGseq scrolls to the very end of the page. [logseq_todo_scrolling_down]

and here:

Cursor jumps to a completely unexpected position

There are situations where the view respectively the cursor seems to jump to a completely unexpected position. Example 1) TODO Block 1 - Block 1.1 - Block 1.2 The important things to reproduce the problem are… The TODO is not in the journal of the current day, but on one of the previous days. There is a query in the journal of the current day that shows TODO Block 1 If you now go from e.g. Block 1.1 up to TODO Block 1, the cursor does not jump to the block directly above, but to the “TOD…

I hope the dev team will find and fix all those situations where Logseq loses the focus.

[Miranda_N]

I too wish for a fix to this. The logic of where to shift the selection upon the deletion of a block seems not complicated:

• deleting a block that has a parent → shift the selection to the parent
• deleting a block that doesn’t have a parent → shift the selection to the preceding block, otherwise the next block (including the default empty one that is created automatically when the page has no block)

[athan]

One has to know the Alt+up and Alt+down sequences to start using effectively navigation in a page, especially after deleting a block, and that is not obvious or easy for a newcomer because there is not any other quick way to select a block before or after deletion.

Here is some feedback about that topic

Show users how to navigate in a page, how to create, select, delete and move blocks

I am a newcomer and from my short user experience with Logseq and after going through most of the documentation I noticed that very basic things such as how to navigate within a page, or how to select and delete blocks have escaped the attention of many Logseq experienced advocates. In the documentation if you search for block, navigation or delete/select block you get back changelog pages that are mostly irrelevant with that topic. One has to dig into keyboard shortcuts to find block operation…