Re: TextEdit for iPad

[Dave Carlson]

Isn’t there a way that you can lock the voiceover cursor to always follow the text cursor? Dave Carlson Woodworker, Farfar, Oregonian, pioneer, engineer, and Musician On Jun 20, 2025, at 12:30 PM, Bradford Snyder <wb...@swbell.net> wrote: This is actually normal VoiceOver behavior, and not a bug. When you open a text document, both the VoiceOver focus, and the text cursor are located at the top of the document. If you arrow down through the document, the VoiceOver focus remains at the top of the page, while the text cursor is moved as you continue to press the arrow key.. Thus, when you use VO + A, you begin reading from the location of the VoiceOver focus, and not at the position of the text cursor. HTH. - Brad - On Jun 20, 2025, at 06:41, Krishnakant Mane <kkmane...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Andrew. I actually installed drafts and find that it is very accessible. One thing which I found was that read all was again broken here. So it means that read all always starts at the top.  If you use cursor keys and go down few lines and then initiate read all, it still starts at the top. Regarding markdown I am aware of it and in fact used it for sometime in my early days of career. So re you saying that if I use markdown syntax, it will convert it to the format? For example if I add a * at the start of line, will it render and format the document accordingly or still show and read out * for that line? Regards. On 20 Jun 2025, at 4:37 PM, Andrew Leland <alel...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Krishnakant, Drafts is superb as a temporary note taker, I’d say it works as advertised — you write first, and then figure out where and how to export the text later. It uses markdown for text formatting. If you don’t know markdown, it’s quite easy to learn — *single asterisks* for ital, a line starting with a single # is an H1, etc. https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/  After a few years, for the majority of situations I’ve pretty much given up on WYSIWYG editors like Word or Pages in favor of writing in markdown, I find it much more accessible and precise and… fun?? For my workflow. Smiles Andrew Sent from my iPad On Jun 20, 2025, at 12:41 AM, Krishnakant Mane <kkmane...@gmail.com> wrote: Oh, drafts app. Can you give me some more details on how and for what you have used it. Can you do text formatting, is it good as a temporary note taker? Regards. On 19 Jun 2025, at 11:35 PM, Andrew Leland <alel...@gmail.com> wrote: While we’re talking about editing text on the iPad, I want to give a shout-out to the extremely versatile and accessible Drafts app, which works well across iOS/iPadOS and MacOS …  On Jun 18, 2025, at 8:52 PM, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: I use a fantastic, free one called Subtext for plain text, but I don't think it does RTF, which I would otherwise just preview with Quick Look. So not a whole answer, but if you only edit plain, Subtext definitely comes recommended. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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