android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/EditorBlock.kt

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 package com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui
 
+import androidx.annotation.StringRes
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
+import androidx.compose.foundation.text.BasicTextField
 import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardActions
 import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardOptions
 import androidx.compose.material.icons.Icons
@@ -11,6 +15,7 @@ import androidx.compose.material3.Checkbox
 import androidx.compose.material3.Icon
 import androidx.compose.material3.IconButton
 import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
+import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
 import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
 import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
@@ -19,8 +24,10 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.focus.FocusRequester
 import androidx.compose.ui.focus.focusRequester
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.SolidColor
 import androidx.compose.ui.res.stringResource
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.TextRange
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.TextStyle
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.ImeAction
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.TextFieldValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextDecoration
@@ -190,13 +197,12 @@ private fun ProseBlock(
     requester: FocusRequester,
     onChange: (EditorBlock) -> Unit,
 ) {
-    PlainTextField(
+    BlockField(
         value = block.value,
         onValueChange = { onChange(block.copy(value = it)) },
         modifier = Modifier.focusRequester(requester),
-        hint = R.string.editor_body_hint,
         enabled = !readOnly,
-        textStyle = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyLarge,
+        hint = R.string.editor_body_hint,
     )
 }
 
@@ -222,7 +228,7 @@ private fun TaskBlock(
             onCheckedChange = { onChange(block.copy(checked = it)) },
             enabled = !readOnly,
         )
-        PlainTextField(
+        BlockField(
             value = block.value,
             onValueChange = { onChange(block.copy(value = it)) },
             modifier = Modifier.weight(1f).focusRequester(requester),
@@ -248,6 +254,61 @@ private fun TaskBlock(
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * The field a block is typed into.
+ *
+ * `BasicTextField`, not the Material one [PlainTextField] wraps, and the reason is
+ * density. Material's TextField puts 16dp above and below its text — padding that
+ * makes a FORM field comfortable to hit, and that on a checklist IS the row height. It
+ * made six items twice as tall as the six items, which is what the operator saw.
+ *
+ * Nothing is lost by dropping down a layer. `PlainTextField` exists to strip a
+ * container and an indicator; `BasicTextField` never had either, so there is no box
+ * here to drift back into existence. What it does not supply and this must:
+ *
+ *  - the text COLOUR. It defaults to `Color.Unspecified`, which draws BLACK — the same
+ *    default that made the editor's toolbar invisible in dark mode. Set, not inherited.
+ *  - the cursor brush, which would otherwise be black for the same reason.
+ *  - the placeholder, which is a plain Text behind the field rather than a slot.
+ *
+ * `enabled = false` deliberately does not grey the text out: a trashed note renders
+ * read-only through this and its words are meant to be READ.
+ */
+@Composable
+private fun BlockField(
+    value: TextFieldValue,
+    onValueChange: (TextFieldValue) -> Unit,
+    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
+    enabled: Boolean = true,
+    singleLine: Boolean = false,
+    @StringRes hint: Int? = null,
+    textStyle: TextStyle = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyLarge,
+    keyboardOptions: KeyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions.Default,
+    keyboardActions: KeyboardActions = KeyboardActions.Default,
+) {
+    val style = textStyle.copy(color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurface)
+    Box(modifier = modifier) {
+        if (hint != null && value.text.isEmpty()) {
+            Text(
+                text = stringResource(hint),
+                style = style,
+                color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
+            )
+        }
+        BasicTextField(
+            value = value,
+            onValueChange = onValueChange,
+            modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+            enabled = enabled,
+            singleLine = singleLine,
+            textStyle = style,
+            keyboardOptions = keyboardOptions,
+            keyboardActions = keyboardActions,
+            cursorBrush = SolidColor(MaterialTheme.colorScheme.primary),
+        )
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  * What the return key does on a checklist item.
  *

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/PlainField.kt

@@ -16,18 +16,21 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
 import androidx.compose.ui.res.stringResource
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.TextStyle
-import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.TextFieldValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.VisualTransformation
 
 /**
  * A text field with no box around it.
  *
- * Every writing surface in the app — the capture sheet, the editor's title and
- * body, each checklist row — sits on a surface that already has its own edges and
- * its own colour. Material's filled field would draw a second, differently
- * coloured box inside the first, which makes writing a note look like filling in a
- * form. Stripping the container and the indicator in four places independently is
- * how they drift apart, so it happens once, here.
+ * The search box, the label picker, the sync-pairing form: fields that sit on a
+ * surface which already has its own edges and its own colour, where Material's filled
+ * field would draw a second, differently coloured box inside the first. Stripping the
+ * container and the indicator at each site independently is how they drift apart, so
+ * it happens once, here.
+ *
+ * The note EDITOR no longer comes through this. It dropped to `BasicTextField`
+ * (see `EditorBlock.kt`) for density: Material's field puts 16dp above and below its
+ * text, which is right for a form and is the whole row height on a checklist. Nothing
+ * about "no box" was lost there — BasicTextField never had one.
  *
  * The disabled colours are stripped too: a trashed note is shown through this
  * field read-only, and Material's disabled treatment would grey out text the user
@@ -65,47 +68,8 @@ fun PlainTextField(
 }
 
 /**
- * The same field over a [TextFieldValue], for the one caller that needs to control
- * the SELECTION as well as the text — the editor, which opens an existing note with
- * the cursor at the end so continuing to write costs no extra taps.
- *
- * A `String` field cannot express that: Compose starts its internal selection at
- * offset zero, so focusing one drops the cursor before the first character.
- */
-@OptIn(ExperimentalMaterial3Api::class)
-@Composable
-fun PlainTextField(
-    value: TextFieldValue,
-    onValueChange: (TextFieldValue) -> Unit,
-    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
-    @StringRes hint: Int? = null,
-    enabled: Boolean = true,
-    singleLine: Boolean = false,
-    minLines: Int = 1,
-    textStyle: TextStyle = LocalTextStyle.current,
-    keyboardOptions: KeyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions.Default,
-    keyboardActions: KeyboardActions = KeyboardActions.Default,
-    visualTransformation: VisualTransformation = VisualTransformation.None,
-) {
-    TextField(
-        value = value,
-        onValueChange = onValueChange,
-        modifier = modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
-        enabled = enabled,
-        placeholder = hint?.let { { Text(stringResource(it)) } },
-        singleLine = singleLine,
-        minLines = minLines,
-        textStyle = textStyle,
-        keyboardOptions = keyboardOptions,
-        keyboardActions = keyboardActions,
-        visualTransformation = visualTransformation,
-        colors = plainFieldColors(),
-    )
-}
-
-/**
- * One definition of "no box", shared by both overloads. Two copies of this is
- * exactly the drift this file exists to prevent.
+ * One definition of "no box". Two copies of this is exactly the drift this file
+ * exists to prevent.
  */
 @OptIn(ExperimentalMaterial3Api::class)
 @Composable