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android: open an existing note ready to keep writing
Opening a note put no cursor anywhere, so carrying on cost a tap into the
body and usually a second one to drag the caret past the existing text.
The compose sheet has always focused its field on open; the editor never
did, and continuing a note is the more common act of the two.

Focus the body on open, caret at the end. Not for a trashed note — that
renders read-only and a keyboard over a record you cannot edit is noise.
Keyed on note.id so the reused editor re-requests when pointed at a
different note.

The caret position is why the body state moves from String to
TextFieldValue: a String field always starts its selection at offset zero,
so focusing one lands the cursor before the first character — the wrong
end of a note you meant to continue. PlainTextField gains a TextFieldValue
overload for it, and the two overloads share one colours definition rather
than growing a second copy of the "no box" treatment this file exists to
keep in one place.

I recorded this backwards in Scribe 2947 — as the keyboard opening
unwanted, when the report was the opposite. The source having no
FocusRequester was the tell, and I read it as a mystery instead of as
evidence I had the direction wrong.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 21:00:57 -04:00
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