List: Hitting delete at the beginning of the last list item doesn't exit the block

[danielbachhuber]

When I hit delete on the beginning of the last list item in Google Docs, it breaks out of the list:

However, when I do the same in the Block Editor, it moves the last list item to the end of the prior list item:

I would expect the Block Editor to behave like Google Docs.

[hanneslsm]

Not sure about this one.
Google Docs uses tabs, which is not really a thing in web. Would this be done with a tab then, padding, margin or something else? Or it stays a <li> but doesn't display the bullet point?

[danielbachhuber]

Would this be done with a tab then, padding, margin or something else? Or it stays a <li> but doesn't display the bullet point?

Oh, I think we can ignore the tab that Google Docs adds. We can simply take the last list item to a paragraph block.

[Marc-pi]

well, first of all we need to fix the way this block is generating Lists/Sublists, because it mess it up, to make it far more robust.
see #53353

[ellatrix]

I'm also not sure about this one. Pressing Backspace would be a bit jarring if a list item in the middle splits the list in two with a paragraph in between, which also adds margins.

[allisonplus]

My concern is that users less familiar with blocks would end up with multiple ul's without realizing the lists are splitting somewhere in the middle.

[ellatrix]

Just checked in Apple notes, and it behaves the same as Gutenberg.

Google Docs' concept of list items is very different, it is similar to MS Word: each list item is just a "styled" paragraph and internally there's no concept of nesting. Sure the list items are indented, but they are not nested. They don't need to handle having to break out of a list grouping.

[ellatrix]

Oh, here you can see how Docs/Word represent lists internally by the garbage HTML we get handed on paste: #46832.