Proposal: Copy/Cut/Paste blocks

[pinarol]

1. Currently there’s no way to move a block inside/outside of nested blocks which is a big missing piece. Cut/Paste can be a quick way to support this.

2. When I style a button block I feel the need to just copy the same button near it. Currently you can only add a new Button block from scratch. Copy paste can be a quick way to cover these kinds of needs. Button block is just an example but we'll keep on adding more style options to the blocks.

Copy/Cut/Paste is a popular paradigm so I feel like we can have a quick win feature here without needing to complicate the editor.

What I have in mind is just putting the copy/cut options to the new block menu we have. (The one that also has the Trash icon.)

Again if sth has been copied or cut, we could show options there like Paste after this, Paste before this.

cc @iamthomasbishop

[iamthomasbishop]

Currently there’s no way to move a block inside/outside of nested blocks which is a big missing piece. Cut/Paste can be a quick way to support this.

I agree w/ your general assessment, this would be a really natural thing to have. I think there are 2 main considerations in my mind — using the native Edit/Selection Menus (mostly tied to richText blocks) and copy/paste via the ••• menu on the inline toolbar.

The obvious path on the RN side is the ••• menu options. When the user taps ••• we should show options to Copy block and Paste block (if there is one in the clipboard). If the user has copied a block to their clipboard, tapping on Paste block would show a sheet that is similar to the one we show when users long-press the inserter button. This would show options for Paste block before, Replace current block (if this is an empty block), and Paste block after. That flow would look like this:

Alternatively, using the native Edit/Selection Menus would work something like this: When the user taps a richText input, we inherently show the Edit/Selection Menu, which shows options for copy/paste/etc. If the block is empty, we skip straight to replacing the empty block with the one from the clipboard. If the block has contents, we show the position sheet (paste above, below, replace current block). That would look like this (example uses an empty paragraph block):

Any thoughts on this? I imagine the easier part will be the RN side, but let's discuss.