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you can enable cursor control by holding space, and then you can move to selection mode by touching anywhere else on the keyboard.
by ulbu 9mo ago
you can enable cursor control by holding space, and then you can move to selection mode by touching anywhere else on the keyboard.
- ycombinator_acc 9mo agoYou have to be very precise with your finger drags because it loves snapping back to the original position. Gbroard doesn’t suffer from this. Part of the reason is it doesn’t do the “free-floating” cursor thing - which I’ve never understood the point of anyway. It’s fancy but useless in 99% of cases on a phone.
- BLanen 9mo agoDoesn't work for me like it used to since update 26.1. Its now extremely hard to get that to work.
- sotix 9mo agoYet on Android you can simply tap exactly where you want the cursor to be placed. It's a much superior experience.
- ulbu 9mo agoum, you do the same on ios.
- pvab3 9mo agoit really doesn't work, the cursor will often snap right back especially when you're using a search or URL bar
- ulbu 9mo agoyea, url substring selection is shit.
- sotix 9mo agoNo quite. On iOS, I cannot place the cursor in the middle of a word by putting my finger there. It goes to the beginning or end of the word, and then I have to drag it like an ice cube to the precise spot. On Android you can tap exactly where you want the cursor to go, and it does with perfect precision.
- ulbu 9mo agoah ok, yes, i see. did not notice the nuance in the parent.