iOS keyboard, cursor irritation

BunnyKillBot · 19 May 2011 at 15:36

Loving the iPad and touch typing on the keyboard actually works pretty well, however, one thing that is driving me up the wall is the lack of up down left right cursor keys. It seems you can't tap the cursor into words, and If I want to correct a mistake I have to backspace to the error rather than moving the cursor to do an edit!

Am I being simples? Is there a better way.

Also, where is the 4 finger swipe page forward page back I am used to on my MacBook. Where is it?

cotton31 · 19 May 2011 at 16:11

You can tap and hold your finger over the text to see a magnifying bubble showing the cursor, so you can drag it to your mistake and edit it that way.

I don't think you can 4 finger swipe, at least not without jailbreaking...

Dewotter · 19 May 2011 at 17:06

BunnyKillBot said:
Loving the iPad and touch typing on the keyboard actually works pretty well, however, one thing that is driving me up the wall is the lack of up down left right cursor keys. It seems you can't tap the cursor into words, and If I want to correct a mistake I have to backspace to the error rather than moving the cursor to do an edit!

Am I being simples? Is there a better way.

Also, where is the 4 finger swipe page forward page back I am used to on my MacBook. Where is it?

It should be three finger swipe on the MacBook. Doesn't exist on the iPad.

BunnyKillBot · 19 May 2011 at 17:17

RKO said:
It should be three finger swipe on the MacBook. Doesn't exist on the iPad.

Sorry, it's so engrained I actually have no idea how many fingers the gesture is, lol. I can't understand why it's not built into safari iOS.

cotton31 said:
You can tap and hold your finger over the text to see a magnifying bubble showing the cursor, so you can drag it to your mistake and edit it that way.

I don't think you can 4 finger swipe, at least not without jailbreaking...

Tap and drag is part of the copy pasta system, and again, you can't tap select inside a word, only a word and something else. Given "three tables" I can highlight three, tables, three ta, ee tables, etc, but not able, re, etc. And I can only place the cursor either side of a complete word.

I also find autocorrect simultaneously wonderful and extremely annoying. Some mistypes get totally malformed.

Feek · 19 May 2011 at 17:54

You can tap and move the cursor to anywhere.

BunnyKillBot · 19 May 2011 at 19:20

Feek said:
You can tap and move the cursor to anywhere.

Including inside a word? Say i wanted to capitalise the first letter of a word. I cannot without deleting the entire word.

Dewotter · 19 May 2011 at 19:35

BunnyKillBot said:
Including inside a word? Say i wanted to capitalise the first letter of a word. I cannot without deleting the entire word.

You can, just hold down until the magnifying glass appears then move to where you want to go, and release.

BunnyKillBot · 19 May 2011 at 20:03

RKO said:
You can, just hold down until the magnifying glass appears then move to where you want to go, and release.

Holy mackerel I just got it. Thank you.

Rather embarrassing really as neither the missus nor i could figure it out. I am quite prepared to accept I am a thickie but that action seemed somewhat counter intuitive. I don't see why you can't just single tap at the approximate location.

Dewotter · 19 May 2011 at 20:07

BunnyKillBot said:
Holy mackerel I just got it. Thank you.

Rather embarrassing really as neither the missus nor i could figure it out. I am quite prepared to accept I am a thickie but that action seemed somewhat counter intuitive. I don't see why you can't just single tap at the approximate location.

In your case don't try it on an iPhone then.

I'm still not 100% with it.

cotton31 · 20 May 2011 at 11:31

BunnyKillBot said:
Holy mackerel I just got it. Thank you.

Rather embarrassing really as neither the missus nor i could figure it out. I am quite prepared to accept I am a thickie but that action seemed somewhat counter intuitive. I don't see why you can't just single tap at the approximate location.

You're welcome

bitslice · 23 May 2011 at 22:10

cotton31 said:
You can tap and hold your finger over the text to see a magnifying bubble showing the cursor, so you can drag it to your mistake and edit it that way.

Oh wow, that works, I've been bugged by the same issue.

Thanks mate :cool:

Bad apple, that wasn't as intuitive as it should have been