25 March: A ton of editor improvements, bug fixes and more

A dedicated team have been working hard on making some editor improvements and fixes to improve the overall editing experience in GitBook

✨ New and noteworthy

A ton of editor upgrades

We’ve had a squad dedicated to improving and fixing some things in the editor for the past week or two. Here’s a quick breakdown of everything they’ve shipped:

Link hover menu improvements

Last week the team redesigned the link hover menu to make it easier to open, edit, copy and remove links from text in the editor. This week they’ve also tweaked the timing for the menu opening and closing. It was previously appearing to quickly and closing too slowly, which could lead to overlaps if several links were hovered in quick succession. The timing has been tweaked to make everything feel slightly better.

Improved menu heights

When you opened the the Insert menu and Options menu near the bottom of a window, the height of the menus was previously quite small. Now, it’ll open at full height, making it easier to scroll and select the option you need.

Toggle the TOC more easily

The Toggle table of contents button is now easier to access. It’ll appear when you hover your cursor over the TOC, and remains visible when the TOC is collapsed making it easier to find again if needed.

Options and dragging for empty blocks

We’ve added the Options button to empty blocks. So now you can easily drag and drop empty blocks around on the page — or open the options menu with a click.

Keyboard navigation out of menus

When you use / or @ in the editor, it opens up a context menu for inline content or an @ mention for another user. Now, you can press the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard to move the cursor around on the page, or hit Esc to close the menu.

Spacing improvements

We made some small tweaks to spacing in the editor, particularly to bring list blocks closer to the paragraph above them — which should make lists following text feel more natural.

Improved

• We’ve moved our own docs onto a new version of our published docs platform for testing. You should see improved performance and faster loading times in our docs site. We’re just running some final tests on this new platform and will roll it out to more docs sites soon.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that was causing the table of content to shift its layout when switching between views.

• Fixed an issue with change requests opening the Changes tab soon after making your first edit would result in a delay in the page loading.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the editor to crashing when viewing a change that involved an image that had been moved and modified.

• Fixed an issue where viewing changes on a page that had no edits on the main branch would show an empty page.

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