>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
