I've been using Hacker's Keyboard in compact mode for years now for this reason. (And my screen is pretty small for today's standards.) It's just so much easie

I've been using Hacker's Keyboard in compact mode for years now for this reason. (And my screen is pretty small for today's standards.) It's just so much easier to edit text with arrow keys, shift-select, ctrl-c/x/v, etc. than getting that teardrop handle to behave, even on a touchscreen.