Auto-Scroll behavior makes editing difficult

[Roy Steves]

When I hit Enter on the new experience, the editing window auto-scrolls to put the cursor one line BELOW the bottom of the pane.  This makes it impossible to make the kind of progress I'm used to--I've started editing in an external text editor and pasting in between Previews.

This also gives me a usable cntl-f search, but is a ridiculous inconvenience that didn't used to be necessary.  There's no reason to have my edit window jumping around, hiding my cursor on every newline.

[Lyubomir Popov]

Same here...
The answer will be that this is done for privacy reasons :) :)

[Chris Shin]

Yeah, someone fix this now... plz. It is killing me here...

[Nils Rooijmans]

second this issue, would be very nice if Google could fix this.

[Lyubomir Popov]

Google had <br> in the emails for automated rules for years :) you want someone to fix a scroll bug in days ... :)

[Google Ads Scripts Forum Advisor]

Hello everyone,

I’m James from the Google Ads scripts support team. I believe that our team is already looking into this unusual behavior in our script editor. Rest assured that we will keep this thread posted for any updates.

Regards,

James Howell Google Ads Scripts Team

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[Sigurd Fabrin]

Agree. This is a super annoying.

There're a few workarounds:

1) After hitting enter, just start typing - The viewport will switch back to the correct line so you can see what you're typing, except for the first character.

2) Use Shift + Enter to avoid change in viewport altogether. However, this option moves the cursor all the way to the left on the new line - which is also annoying.

Sigurd

[Google Ads Scripts Forum]

Reposting the last inquiry (https://groups.google.com/g/adwords-scripts/c/3AI5LjLFw_0) from the forum as it wasn't routed to our support queue.

Regards,
Yasmin
Google Ads Scripts Team

[Google Ads Scripts Forum]

Hi All,

@Sigurd - Thank you for providing your insights on this.

I would agree with Sigurd's provided workarounds, as I also follow these in order to save time instead of scrolling all the way down (especially if it is a script with many lines of code) as well as adjust the indentation when the cursor gets pushed all the way to the left. Kindly follow this for the meantime while this is being investigated. We do appreciate your patience regarding this.

That said, while this issue has no updates we can share at the moment, I will be sure to communicate your insights to our team. We'll let you know the soonest we get feedback from them.

Regards,
Yasmin
Google Ads Scripts Team

[Google Ads Scripts Forum Advisor]

Hi All,

 

We just heard back from the team, and they've shared that this issue has been fixed now. Please let us know if you'll encounter this behaviour again.

 

Cheers,

 

Yasmin Gabrielle Google Ads Scripts Team

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[Martijn Kraan]

Works like a charm :)

Thanks for the update!