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Improve UX of adding new task list in editor

Description

I very often use task lists in issues/merge requests.
But sometimes it's not so useful to use as it would be.
If I click to Add a task list button in the editor, the * [ ] code will always be put into the next new line.

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Proposal

Improve the logic of adding a new task list:

  1. If the cursor is on an empty line, clicking to the button should put * [ ] at the beginning of the current empty line.
  2. If the cursor is on not empty line, clicking to the button should add an empty line next to the current one and put * [ ] at the beginning of that new line.

So, the main goal of this proposal is, if you added some task list, then made some changes to a part of text (say, add bold there) and then you'd like to add another task list, you will just click to the Add a task list button and editor will do the things right (you won't have to create a new line by yourself and then click to the button).

/cc @awhildy @tauriedavis