Yep, anything is a royal pain until you practice and get good at it. I do most of my writing on my iPhone, even the initial drafts of my research papers.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 17/06/2012, at 11:36, "Rose Combs" <rosecom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I don't do a lot of it because I don't write long messages on the > phone, but I do know that control C and control V still work as they do in > Windows. Sorry, I just do not use the phone for a writing tool and one > reason is because editing is a royal pain, if I ever get Siri things might > change but then maybe not. > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Tom Lange > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:10 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Editing text in iPhone > > Hi, > How do you do text selecttion with a bluetooth keyboard, and by what units of > text can you select? > > Thanks. > Tom > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rose Combs > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:26 AM > Subject: RE: Editing text in iPhone > > The edit function and cut and paste on the phone itself is junk, said from > someone who much prefers using a keyboard when needing to edit where ctrl v > and c work and where deleting works with separate keys so you know exactly if > you are going the right direction. I very much hate editing on the phone > itself, if Vokul makes a mistake, in fact, I just leave it there, and if I > make a horrible on typing I just delete the whole thing and try again. I > don't do lengthy messages or e-mail on the phone, only mail I get is to send > phone numbers to the address connected to the phone because reading e-mail on > the phone is not for me at least a pleasant experience. I have lots of uses > for the phone but editing, cutting and pasting are not among them unless I am > bored and feel I have nothing else to do. > > I like the phone and it goes everywhere with me but those functions and the > rotors are my least favorite. Practice in those cases does not make perfect, > just frustration. > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Chuck Dean > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:01 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Editing text in iPhone > > Yes, as above, make sure you are going in the right direction. > > When I first got my iPhone I thought the edit function was junk until I > realized my mistake. > Chuck > > On Friday, June 15, 2012 1:49:54 PM UTC-7, Rahul Bajaj wrote: > Hi all, > > I often get really confused when I try to edit the text that I've typed. > For example, when I want to edit a text message, I swipe down with one > finger and VO reads the text character by character. > Now, if I want to delete a character, I double tap the delete button. > So, sometimes the character that VO last spoke gets deleted and at > other times the character which was immediately before the character > that VO last spoke gets deleted. > So, how exactly does this work? > Let's say I've made a spelling mistake and have written my name as R A > H O U L instead of R A H U L. > So, where should I press the delete button to delete the O? > > Thanks in advance for your assistance. > > Best, > Rahul > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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