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Use tab to indent list items
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Description
Just saw this GIF (from [this post](http://efcl.info/2014/07/19/study-note/)):
Currently MacDown allows cmd+] for indentation, but most editors (see TextEdit, Pages, MS Word, etc.) use tab for that purpose. Even I sometimes need to remind myself tab doesn’t work that way in MacDown.
AFAIK it doesn’t really make sense to insert tabs in the first line of a list item. But I’m not sure whether it’s just me. Please offer your thought on this, and if it does make sense I’ll start implementing it after the next release.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating MacDown's editor handling for list indentation and the existing cmd+] behavior. Check how tab is treated on the first line and within list items, then verify that tab indents list items without inserting unwanted indentation elsewhere. The issue does not name a file or test, so the relevant entry point and validation coverage must be found in the repository.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- objective-c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100