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Holy crow, the feature where you can move the cursor by swiping back and forth on the spacebar is AMAZING. Seriously, I have always struggled with moving the cu
by ktm5j 6y ago
Holy crow, the feature where you can move the cursor by swiping back and forth on the spacebar is AMAZING. Seriously, I have always struggled with moving the cursor in text on either android or ios. This is great!
- Kelamir 6y agoNot only that. You can also erase text by swiping left starting from the delete button.
- ktm5j 6y agoNeat!
- whalesalad 6y agoOn iOS hold down the space bar and it becomes a mouse cursor.
- 72deluxe 6y agoOn iPad, use 2 fingers on the keyboard and the keyboard becomes a touchpad.
- akvadrako 6y agoYes, it's amazing. And this also works on the default Android/iOS keyboards too.
- ktm5j 6y agooh.. really? Now I feel silly haha
- Topgamer7 6y agoYeah its super useful. Although the detection of it is not perfect. Sometimes you end up inserting a space (:
- cutemonster 6y agoI feel silly too now. I wonder what other lovely features i also don't yet know about ... Edit: Oh this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25671086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25671086 One can delete-left, by starting swiping from the delete button
- wayneftw 6y agoIt does not work on the default iOS keyboard. You can't just slide your finger around the spacebar, you have to long press on the keyboard and hope you don't trigger the alternate character popup instead. Then while you're moving the cursor around, half the time it will just start selecting text. Moving the cursor sucks on iOS.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI'm an android guy, but force touch moving cursor on iOS works very fine. Better than spacebar sliding. Just press harder on on keyboard and it'll hide keys and let you desk the cursor around, mouse style.
- lights0123 6y agoAll in production iPhones don't have force touch.
- akvadrako 6y agoI also thought it worked better than Android on the SE 1.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI don't have any device without it on hand, but since force touch is basically a glorified longtap, I guess some form of longtap will do the trick.
- lights0123 6y agoYes, they have "haptic touch", which means long press. Force touch specifically requires you to apply more pressure than a normal touch.
- wayneftw 6y agohttps://imgur.com/agqXWWJ https://imgur.com/agqXWWJ That's me pasting your comment into a reply box and then using my iPhone 8 to move the cursor around. Once I start moving the cursor all I'm doing is moving it, nothing else. You can see that it starts selecting text randomly twice. It actually took me longer to trigger it this time than usual. I think it happens when I moved to the top of the text and then make a downward motion. It's really, really annoying on a regular basis.
- archi42 6y agoHm, tried it, but it doesn't seem to work that way on the AOSP keyboard (LineageOS/Android9 here). Either hits '.' or the language change button, or I get the "select keyboard layout" pop up due to a long press on space. Will check out OpenBoard, because this sounds like a great feature.
- the_pwner224 6y agoOn lineageos there's an option somewhere in the system settings to make the volume buttons move the cursor when the keyboard is open.
- cutemonster 6y agoAdd Comment the_pwner224 3 hours ago | parent | on: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respec... On lineageos there's an option somewhere in the system settings to make the volume buttons move t andhe cursor when the keyboard is open.
- cutemonster 6y agoOops I accidentally submitted that, when trying out the keyboard features (i copied some random text and started soft kbd space sweeping to move the cursor. Didn't notice i apparently submitted the text too)
- archi42 6y agoThanks for the pointer, though I already know about it. But then I can't change the volume when in a text input field - with headphones and very dynamic music I found this to be an issue.
- chrysoprace 6y agoI've been using OpenBoard for over a year and I didn't know this!