Hi Ester.
I have a Zagg Mini 9 case for my ipad Mini. I love the keyboard on this
case. Do you know if there is a keyboard command that would perform the
same action as double tapping the back button? I used to have a
keyboard where the escape key performed this function but this KB is
definitely very specific for IOS devices and doesn't seem to have an
escape key that I've been able to find. Is there possibly a key
combination that would do this? Thanks much.
Best,
Rick alfaro
On 3/23/2013 1:38 AM, Esther wrote:
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?
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