I've never tried cutting and pasting text with a keyboard, but I've copied text from Chrome on my iPhone using the pinch gesture.
On 07/01/13 11:59, Nicki Keck wrote: > Hi all, > > Anthony asked recently how one would share a facebook status by copying > the text and then being able to paste it to his own status. I know > there is the share button, but not all statuses have that option, and I > believe, and I know in my case, he was referring to ones that don't that > one might want to share. someone, and I forget who, replied to him and > said they were able to do this with the pinch gesture. now I have not > mastered nor tried to master that gesture yet because I have a BT > keyboard and have always figured the easiest thing to do is to do the > selecting, copying, pasting with that instead of trying to do it on the > phone. so I tried to select text in a facebook status yesterday using > my keyboard, and it did not work. I can select text all day long when > I'm in an edit field, but not just text on the screen, even if I turn > quicknav off. so I would like more information on how this person is > selecting this text. another possibility is this: Does the pinch > gesture ever work when using the keyboard doesn't? I would not think > so, but I guess it's possible. I have never, ever been able to select > text on the screen on IOS, whether it be in Safari, facebook or whatever > other app, except while in an edit field. Oh that is the other > question: is this person doing this in the FB app itself or some other > app? Because even in safari, though I haven't tried lately, I have > never been able to do this. I have talked to MAC users who say that it > is possible to do it on the MAC OS with Voiceover, so if that is the > case, it would really be nice to be able to do this in IOS, but last I > heard, this was not possible. of course, I do this in Windows all day > long as well. any other thoughts/help would be appreciated. > > have a blessed day, > > Nicki > > If you enjoy college football or the NFL, come join us at our new group, > touchdowncrazy. Send a blank e-mail message to: > [email protected] -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
