Hi Mickey, I wasn't trying to overwhelm you with references. The basic answer is that most of the keyboard editing shortcuts available to iOS are the ones that you know about, and that are documented in the iPhone User Guide, and involve combinations of the Control, Option, Command, and arrow keys to move your input cursor. Movement key shortcuts can be turned into selection actions by adding a press of the Shift key to the combination, so for example, if Command-Down Arrow moves your input cursor location from its present position to the end of the text document, Command-Shift-Down arrow will select text from your present input cursor location to the end of the document. If Option-Right arrow moves your input cursor from the present position to the end of a word, then Option-Shift-Right arrow selects text from your current input cursor's location to the end of a word, and so forth. Notice that if your input cursor is in the middle of a word you'll only select part of the word. For instance, if your input cursor is in the middle of the word, "foretell", between the "e" and the "t", then pressing Option-Shift-Right arrow would select "tell", while pressing Option-Shift-Left arrow would select "fore".
The only other large set of editing keyboard shortcuts that you don't know about are the ones like Control-a, Control-b, etc. But my July 2010 post on "Apple Wireless Keyboard Shortcuts for the iPhone and iPod Touch in iOS 4" went through most of those combinations to pick out the ones that worked for iOS at the time: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg26148.html So if you want to check whether there are any updates on that, go look at the Apple Knowledge Base article on Mac OS X shortcuts that I linked: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 Use item chooser menu to navigate to "Application and Other OS X Shortcuts" and just read through the list of Control-a, etc. shortcuts until you hit the end of their alphabetical listing (Control-v), and test those out to find if there are any new additions. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 22, 5:43 pm, Mickey Quenzer <mickey.quen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Esther I really appreciate all the information you gave me. I'm not > quite sure how I'll put this all together but if I come up with a document > that has all this information I'll definitely let you see it. thanks a lot I > appreciate the help you have given me! > > On Mar 22, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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/msg2614... > > > 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/msg2614... > > > 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 <richard.turne...@gmail.com> 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 <mickey.quen...@gmail.com> > >> 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/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 Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
