Selecting text with arrows when shift is locked, clipboard?
Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 3:54 pm
Even with gingerbread, Android still lacks a competent text selection mechanism (mostly due to how difficult it is to start). Despite having a hardware keyboard, I never use it anymore because of how awesome SKP is, but I occasionally still need to resort to using it for text selection and cut/copy/paste (menu + x, c, or v).
I propose the following possible solution. Add a feature to SKP where if you enter shift lock mode, and then either perform an arrow key gesture or press an arrow button (without first typing any letters - if you've already typed, odds are that you mean to correct a mistake), it selects text and replaces the keyboard with actions like cut, copy, paste, select all, select to start or end of line (not necessary, but would be nice), delete selected (very important! Keep the backspace key visible in the same location), and cancel (which would also hide/cancel the selection). Perhaps also add the clipboard mode to the default cycle when pressing 123, so that the feature is more easily found (and of course allow removing it while keeping the shift lock activation enabled).
I propose the following possible solution. Add a feature to SKP where if you enter shift lock mode, and then either perform an arrow key gesture or press an arrow button (without first typing any letters - if you've already typed, odds are that you mean to correct a mistake), it selects text and replaces the keyboard with actions like cut, copy, paste, select all, select to start or end of line (not necessary, but would be nice), delete selected (very important! Keep the backspace key visible in the same location), and cancel (which would also hide/cancel the selection). Perhaps also add the clipboard mode to the default cycle when pressing 123, so that the feature is more easily found (and of course allow removing it while keeping the shift lock activation enabled).
