Hold Shift key when dragging an object to snap it to the horizontal or vertical axis, moving along the axis only

[ADTC]

Quite surprised this feature doesn't exist right now, as it's a standard one in most similar software products.

When dragging an element around the page, I expected that holding the Shift key down will restrict the element's movement to the vertical or horizontal axis, based on the original position of the element and the proximity of the mouse pointer to the closest axis.

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Is this possible to introduce as a feature?

At the moment, the only workaround seems to be to select the object and use the arrow keys on the keyboard: up/down to move vertical and left/right to move horizontal.

A caveat with the workaround is that every keypress adds an entry to the undo/redo history. (It would be nice if the history is just updated with the additional distance in the existing most recent entry if it's the same type of entry.)

[lavrton]

Yes, it may be a useful feature. Thanks for the feedback.