Type dictated words at the note's cursor instead of the bottom

[davior]

Problem

When dictating into a note, the words always appeared at the bottom of the note, even if the cursor had been placed somewhere in it.

Root cause: clicking the mic button moves focus off the editor on mousedown, before onClick runs. The onMouseDown={e => e.preventDefault()} that used to prevent this was removed so the mic button could keep focus for Enter/Space toggling. As a result handleDictationToggle's editor.isFocused() check was always false, the cursor anchor was always null, and every chunk fell through to "append at end of note". And when the anchor was captured, it inserted a new paragraph after the cursor's block rather than typing at the cursor.

Fix

ProseMirror keeps its selection when the editor blurs, so dictation now types straight into that selection. This doesn't depend on which element has focus.

• New utils/dictationInsert.ts: insertDictationAtSelection(tr, text) inserts at the selection like typing does:
  • Adds spaces around the words where needed (none after whitespace or opening brackets, none before punctuation).
  • Picks up the marks at that position (e.g. bold).
  • Collapses a range selection to its end, so selected text is never overwritten.
  • Leaves the caret after the words, so each chunk continues in order.
  • Returns false when the selection can't hold text (image block, select-all), so the caller can fall back.
• EditorView.tsx:
  • editorHasCursorRef tracks whether the user has put the cursor in the note. It's set from the editor wrapper's onFocus and reset when a note is loaded into the editor.
  • With a cursor, dictation types there. If the user clicks elsewhere mid-session, dictation follows the cursor.
  • With no cursor, the words go at the bottom as before. They now fill the trailing empty line instead of leaving a blank line above, and the rest of the session continues on that line.
  • Removed the old session-block and anchor refs, handleDictationToggle, and the dictation-only anchorBlockId parameter of insertBlocksAtCursor.
  • The mic button still takes focus so Enter/Space toggle it.
• prosemirror-state and prosemirror-model are declared as direct dependencies at the versions already installed through BlockNote (1.4.4 / 1.25.9). The lockfile resolution is unchanged and vite.config.ts already dedupes them.

Testing

• npx tsc --noEmit ✅, npm run build ✅, npx vitest run: 155 passed, including 12 new unit tests for the insertion helper.
• End-to-end in Chromium (Playwright, Vite dev server + real backend, Web Speech API mocked):

Scenario	Before	After
Click between "Hello " and "world", click mic, dictate "there" / "my good friend"	appended at bottom as a new line	Hello there my good friend world
Cursor placed with arrow keys, then mic clicked	appended at bottom	Hello big wide world, caret left before world
No cursor placed in the note	bottom, after a blank line	bottom, on the trailing empty line
User clicks another line mid-session	both chunks at bottom	each chunk lands at the cursor at that moment
Mic keeps focus; Enter stops dictation	✅	✅

Also checked that the dictated text autosaves: the server copy contained Hello world and goodbye.

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