It's not an issue with ME or any keyboard I think, as these things (moving the cursor, selection, copy - paste or any other combination of keys except for with shift) does not work even with a hardware bluetooth keyboard, while they do work with other apps without issues.
Jan-Pieter 2014-06-11 20:42 GMT+02:00 greg heil <[email protected]>: >>In Hackers kb i can use ctrl-xcv to cut copy paste and i can move around in >>the document (with arrow keys) ... but not in J. i can also extend selections >>using shift and arrow keys - but the shift (and ctrl) is lacking in ME. > >>Afaict there is no concept of selection yet in J and the cursor itself is >>lacking some attribute that can be used for movement. Perhaps it is >>reasonable that up and down movements should be complex in J, but not left >>and right - though they _could_ be syntactically informed, eg as the Potsdam >>students have. To do any such extentions means a special keyboard though. It >>would be best to stay as close to the ligua franca as possible - for >>portability, adoption etc sake. > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > > -- > > from: William Tanksley, Jr <[email protected]> > to: Programming forum <[email protected]> > date: 11 June 2014 09:53 > subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Android Keyboard > > greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >>> MessageEase is great! Thanks Wm! > >>Cool, I use it for everything. (The ME tutor "game" helps a LOT.) > >>Another idea, although more expensive, is "Grafitti" -- the glyph recognition >>system. > >>> There seems to be no way of making a selection (nor change the selection:) >>> nor a way to make a cursor movement. > >>You can select all by circling starting and ending at the ABC button. Aside >>from long-pressing on the text, I don't know of a way to select text from an >>Android keyboard. > >>You can modify a selection the same way you make cursor movements -- left or >>right swipe on the spacebar, and up from 'i' or down from 's'. However, I >>don't know how to control how the selection gets modified -- after you asked >>is the first time I tried this. > >>I've used cursor movement a lot, and I can say that up and down can be tricky >>-- you have to be careful to not go outside the keyboard, and on the top (up >>from 'i') that's hard unless you have completion suggestions turned on (from >>the settings) and the completion bar enabled (swipe up on the hand icon). > >>> All this is upstream from cutting and copying (and accessing the paste >>> buffers). > >>You do have that, right? Swipe and return downward from ABC? > >>> ME has copious documentation, perhaps it is in there somewhere. But i have >>> accessed those facilities through another text editor (Dropboxes) > >>That's fascinating; it seems to have some ability to do this, but I don't >>know how to control all of it. > >> greg > > -Wm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
