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swipe the spacebar to move the cursor is the one thing I missed the most when I switched from a jailbroken iPhone to Android. Luckily the Google keyboard recent
by yoodenvranx 9y ago
swipe the spacebar to move the cursor is the one thing I missed the most when I switched from a jailbroken iPhone to Android. Luckily the Google keyboard recently implemented that function.
- 8ytecoder 9y agoWordflow keyboard allows you to use the entire keyboard as a cursor with force press.
- chrisballinger 9y agoThe stock keyboard does that as well.
- nvahalik 9y agoJust tried this and... wow!
- jsmthrowaway 9y agoThis just might be the best thing Hacker News has ever done for my life. Seriously, life changing.
- throwanem 9y agoMeanwhile, I now have a legit reason to want a phone with force touch support, which the SE does not have. But the SE actually fits into my pockets and hands. So now I'm hosed either way. Thanks, ̶O̶b̶a̶m̶a̶HN.
- givinguflac 9y agoFor what it's worth, that is a stock feature now on 3D Touch capable phones.
- chenglou 9y agoAnd imo much better implemented! I use both the Google keyboard and the default; Google's cursor swiping is one dimensional. Swipe back and forth to move around a line. The default one is two dimensional. You can swipe through columns too!
- canuckintime 9y agoApple's restrictions prevent third party keyboards from two dimensional scrolling (as well as selection, copy+paste etc) I had a jail broken keyboard with two dimensional sliding which is better than force touch imo
- cypherpunks01 9y agoWow, this is an awesome trick! Works beautifully on Google Pixel, wish I knew this one before. So useful in correcting dictated/autocomplete errors.