Hello Mickey, Richard is indeed correct that the keyboard shortcuts you are describing that work for iOS devices are a subset of the editing shortcuts that work on the Mac in Cocoa apps (which include most of the basic apps like Mail, TextEdit, etc.). Similarly, selecting text by holding down the Shift key in combination with a movement command, like your example of Control+Shift+Down Arrow, where Control+Down Arrow moves you to the end of screen, is another Mac concept that carries over to iOS keyboard usage. (Actually, I would probably use Command+Shift+Down Arrow to the move to the end of a text document -- there's a distinction between end of screen and end of a document.)
Shortcuts like Control+K (which moves to either the end of a line or the end of a paragraph depending on application and context -- on a Mac, in TextEdit, this shortcut would move to the end of a paragraph) are part of a larger group of shortcuts that are familiar to linux users who used control line editing and/or the emacs text editor. Those shortcuts, like Control+A to move to the beginning of a line and Control+E to move to the end of a line, also work with iOS, and can even be used to select text when applied in combination with pressing the Shift key. However, I don't think I would ever use those combinations, when the same movement actions can be achieved with Command+Right arrow or Left arrow, and selection accomplished by also pressing the Shift key, unless I were using a keyboard with no Command key, or where the Command key were placed in a position where pressing this combination would be difficult to do -- as in the case of the Riitek mini-Bluetooth keyboard sold by Speedots and ATguys. These extra shortcuts were discussed on this list, but during the 3- year period when list posts were not archived at the Mail Archive, so it would be extremely hard to locate any posts that were not also cc'd or sent to the macvisionaries list, which was archived. Here's a Mail Archive page link to a post from July 2010 on "Apple Wireless Keyboard Shortcuts for the iPhone and iPod Touch in iOS 4" that was saved at the macvisionaries list archives. It lists the Control+K combination among a number of other emacs-like control shortcut sequences. http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg26148.html That post also links to another, older post on "Moving and Selecting in Cocoa Apps" that outlines how all these key combinations work on the Mac (and incidentally in iOS by extension): http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg26148.html If you want a more recent Apple Knowledge Base article on "OS X Keyboard Shortcuts" that describes some of the combinations you mention, like Control+K, see this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 Use item chooser menu to move to "Application and Other OS X Shortcuts" and start reading from there. The biggest modification in going from Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts to iOS keyboard shortcuts is that the "Fn" key at the bottom left corner of the Apple Wireless Keyboard is not used for iOS. So actions like Forward delete of characters (Fn+Delete) or words (Fn+Option+Delete) don't work in iOS, nor do combinations like Fn+Up arrow (Page Up), Fn +Down arrow (Page down), Fn+Left arrow (Home), Fn+Right arrow (End). In addition to editing shortcuts, the Mac has option key combinations for typing accents, symbols and special characters. These are language dependent, but some popular ones are Option+8 to type a bullet, and Option+Shift+K to type an "Apple" symbol. Mickey, you're on the Mac-Access list, so if you search the Mail Archives for that list you'll find a lot of my posts about special characters, etc. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 22, 8:50 am, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > Mickey, > I think you will find some of these are Mac keyboard commands. > I have not had time to really investigate this, but check the list of Mac > VoiceOver and just Mac keyboard commands and see if some of these, or all of > them, work on the devices. > HTH, > > Richard > (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) > > On Mar 22, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Mickey Quenzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello all: > > > I would like to make a complete list of the editing commands which you can > > use while editing with a BlueTooth keyboard. > > an example of a keyboard command which I found for myself is that Control > > Plus Shift Plus Down Arrow selects the text from your cursor to the end of > > the document. However, this command isn't described with Control Plus > > Option K. > > Does Anybody know where I can get such a command list? > -- 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. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
