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On Android, a long-press drag in the choices list could delete the dragged choice instead of reordering it - a stationary hold-and-release, a small nudge, or a fast flick released before the next observation tick all persisted the list without the item. The macro builder's command list had the same window.

Root cause. handleConsider strips svelte-dnd-action's shadow placeholder from state (the deliberate fix for the ghost-gap bugs #1244/#883). But at DRAG_STARTED - and on the first DRAGGED_ENTERED, which the library dispatches synchronously before swapping the shadow's placeholder id to the real item id - the shadow still carries SHADOW_PLACEHOLDER_ITEM_ID, so the strip removes the dragged item entirely. Only a later DRAGGED_OVER_INDEX consider restores it. Desktop mouse drags always move enough to close the window (plus the 3px drag-start threshold), which is why this was mobile-only.

Fix. Snapshot the pre-drag list at DRAG_STARTED; on a same-zone finalize whose items are missing the dragged id (and whose snapshot contains it), commit the snapshot instead. That restore is provably a no-op: the only way the id can be missing on a same-zone drop is that the library never registered any reorder. The DROPPED_INTO_ANOTHER cross-zone strip is untouched.

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  • Reproduced and re-verified on a real Android emulator (android-34 AVD, official Obsidian 1.13.8 APK, genuine adb shell input gestures): pre-fix, hold-and-release and small-nudge drops deterministically deleted the choice from data.json; post-fix, every gesture preserves all choices and real drags still reorder and persist.
  • Also verified in desktop Obsidian under app.emulateMobile(true) with synthetic TouchEvents through the runner in obsidian-e2e.config.mjs.
  • Regression tests drive the exact consider/finalize payload sequence observed from svelte-dnd-action 0.9.78, for both ChoiceList and CommandList; full suite green.

No release or migration impact beyond the fix itself. Reviewers should focus on the snapshot guard conditions in handleSort - in particular that a genuine reorder (dragged id present) and the cross-zone strip are unaffected.

Fixes #1692

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented drag-and-drop operations from accidentally removing commands or choices when a drop occurs in a temporary placeholder area.
    • Preserved the intended item position when a dragged item is briefly missing during drop finalization.
    • Continued to support genuine reordering and intentional cross-list moves correctly.
    • Prevented drop animations from interfering with final placement, including when moving the last item.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for placeholder drops, reordering, and cross-list drag-and-drop behavior.

- Restore the pre-drag order when mobile drops omit the dragged item
- Add regression coverage for macro and choice lists
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CommandList and ChoiceList now use shared placeholder recovery during drag events. If finalization omits the dragged item, each component restores it at the latest placeholder position. Genuine reorders and cross-zone removals remain supported. Drop animations are disabled.

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Drag placeholder recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared drag recovery
src/gui/shared/dndReorder.ts
The shared helper captures shadow-placeholder data and position, restores the dragged ID, removes the library marker, and disables drop animations.
CommandList recovery
src/gui/MacroGUIs/CommandList.svelte, src/gui/MacroGUIs/CommandList.placeholderDrop.test.ts
CommandList uses shared recovery state to restore missing commands. Tests cover fallback ordering and genuine reordering.
ChoiceList recovery
src/gui/choiceList/ChoiceList.svelte, src/gui/choiceList/ChoiceList.crosszone.test.ts
ChoiceList restores missing destination choices at the placeholder position. Tests cover placeholder movement, genuine reorders, marker removal, and cross-zone source removal.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to aaced

The change preserves dropped items during mobile drag finalization without introducing a current functional or production risk; only localized tab indentation remains as a follow-up, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DragLibrary
  participant CommandList
  participant ChoiceList
  participant PersistentState
  DragLibrary->>CommandList: send consider and finalize events
  CommandList->>CommandList: capture placeholder and restore missing command
  DragLibrary->>ChoiceList: send consider and finalize events
  ChoiceList->>ChoiceList: capture placeholder and restore missing choice
  CommandList->>PersistentState: save command ordering
  ChoiceList->>PersistentState: save choice ordering or remove cross-zone choice
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I’m a rabbit watching items glide,
Shadow placeholders mark the side.
Missing rows return in place,
Reorders keep their chosen space.
Cross-zone drops remove the source choice.

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97-115: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use tabs for indentation in this changed Svelte block.

Lines 97-143 use spaces for indentation. Replace the leading spaces with tabs.

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Comment thread src/gui/choiceList/ChoiceList.svelte Outdated
Comment thread src/gui/choiceList/ChoiceList.svelte Outdated
…he placeholder window

Two review findings on the placeholder-window recovery:

- Disable the library's drop animation (it was already invisible at
  flipDurationMs 0). Its finalize-time animation-target lookup reads
  children[originIndex], which throws when the LAST row is dropped during
  the placeholder window (the strip left the zone one child short) - the
  finalize never fired, cleanup never ran, and the row stayed missing from
  state until the tab was rebuilt. Reproduced and re-verified on the
  Android emulator.

- Track the index the stripped placeholder last occupied and re-insert the
  dragged item there on recovery, instead of restoring the whole pre-drag
  order: the first DRAGGED_ENTERED (still placeholder-id) can already carry
  the user's intended position, and a full restore silently cancelled it.
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In `@src/gui/choiceList/ChoiceList.svelte`:
- Around line 141-149: Preserve the dragged choice during cross-zone drops by
storing the shadow payload keyed by e.detail.info.id when DRAGGED_ENTERED is
handled. Update handleSort recovery to use this stored state when preDragChoices
has no matching entry, and clear it both when finalizing the drag and when
starting the next drag. Add a regression test covering a destination placeholder
drop, asserting the target retains the choice and the source removes it.
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The stripped shadow is a spread-copy of the dragged item, so the recovery can
reconstruct it (real id restored, library marker dropped) instead of looking it
up in a DRAG_STARTED snapshot. One shared capturePlaceholderRecovery replaces
the per-list snapshot + index pair, and the recovery becomes zone-agnostic: it
also covers a destination zone that receives a placeholder-id shadow, which has
no pre-drag snapshot of its own (unreachable through the real pointer path's
timing, but now handled uniformly rather than by assumption).

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src/gui/choiceList/ChoiceList.svelte (1)

6-8: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use tab indentation in the changed Svelte code.

Replace the leading spaces in these changed lines with tabs.

As per coding guidelines, src/**/*.{ts,tsx,svelte} must use tab indentation and LF line endings.

Also applies to: 97-149

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[BUG] Drag-and-drop deletes choices on Android

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