feature request: Support for ordered and unordered bullets

Open
  • Is something wrong?
#6,780 8 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

@VishalDeval is already working on this.

Since Nov 20, 2025.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react-native, typescript
Domain
frontend, mobile

Research direction

Start by tracing the existing bullet support in the message composer and reviewing the formatting toolbox entry point mentioned in the issue. Compare the proposed shortcut, continuation, numbering, and toolbar phases with the draft implementation; done should be defined for the selected phase and verified across the listed client targets.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

🎉 feature
Feature Description

currently none of the client (web/app/desktop) has support for bullets like other apps do
suggestion is to add option for numbered bullets and unordered bullets too
where user can select an option and the automatic continuation on next line

Motivation and Use Case

when someone has to send the message in key points they have to manually enter - <message> on each line
no automatic continuation
this feature will

  • help improve user experience
  • reduce manual work
  • more universal format for message composer
Implementation Ideas

for UX

  1. integrated buttons in the formatting toolbox
  2. shortcuts like - and 1. and a space for auto-convert into list
  3. auto increment bullet number of add new bullet on new line
  4. using keyboard shortcuts
Is this feature available in the API or web version?

Not available

Rocket.Chat Server Version

No response

Rocket.Chat App Version

No response

Device Name

No response

OS Version

No response

Additional Context

for implementing this:
phase 1 :
improvement of existing bullet support or migrating to new logic

phase 2: // currently implemented in draft PR
auto increment support

phase 3:
more bullet options like a. A. * added

phase 4:
adding dedicated buttons in formatting toolbar

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
2.4k
Forks
1.5k
Avg merge
1d 15h
Merged PRs (30d)
29

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.ReactNative

All issues in RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.ReactNative

Similar issues

More TypeScript issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.