Merge branch 'zach-starter' of https://github.com/brown-dash/Dash-Web into zach-starter

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/views/GlobalKeyHandler.ts b/src/client/views/GlobalKeyHandler.ts
index 733383002..e800798ca 100644
--- a/src/client/views/GlobalKeyHandler.ts
+++ b/src/client/views/GlobalKeyHandler.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import { MainView } from './MainView';
 import { DocumentLinksButton } from './nodes/DocumentLinksButton';
 import { OpenWhereMod } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 import { AnchorMenu } from './pdf/AnchorMenu';
+import { FormattedTextBox } from './nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 
 const modifiers = ['control', 'meta', 'shift', 'alt'];
 type KeyHandler = (keycode: string, e: KeyboardEvent) => KeyControlInfo;
@@ -61,6 +62,8 @@ export class KeyManager {
     });
 
     public handle = action((e: KeyboardEvent) => {
+        // accumulate buffer of characters to insert in a new text note.  once the note is created, it will stop keyboard events from reaching this function.
+        if (FormattedTextBox.SelectOnLoadChar) FormattedTextBox.SelectOnLoadChar = FormattedTextBox.SelectOnLoadChar + (e.key === 'Enter' ? '\n' : e.key);
         e.key === 'Control' && (CtrlKey = true);
         //if (!Doc.noviceMode && e.key.toLocaleLowerCase() === "shift") DocServer.UPDATE_SERVER_CACHE(true);
         const keyname = e.key && e.key.toLowerCase();