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Re:Perfectly Cropped by senectus1 on Friday October 25, 2019 @11:21AM (#21355874)
Rofl, just yesterday I was teasing a ex apple employee about how I can do that very same trick in Android but apple can't do it unless you install the Google keyboard.... Even HE didn't know this trick was in the default some keyboard!

Can't wait to show him on Monday... Lol

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Re:Perfectly Cropped by StavrosK on Friday October 25, 2019 @11:37AM (#21356052)
Wait, how do you do that on Android? Do you mean with Gboard?
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Re:Perfectly Cropped by lisnake on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:15PM (#21356441)
Yeah, it actually does work. Didn't know about it either til now. The trick is to swipe from space button in GBoard, then selection cursor moves. If I just hold my finger on spacebar it triggers language selection, so it's a bit tricky
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Re:Perfectly Cropped by StavrosK on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:17PM (#21356465)
Ah, I don't use Gboard, it's a shame SwiftKey doesn't have that...
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Re:Perfectly Cropped by tapland on Friday October 25, 2019 @11:46AM (#21356143)
Can't get that working in my android
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Re:Perfectly Cropped by toupeira on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:40PM (#21358516)
It's in the Gboard settings under "Glide typing": "Enable gesture cursor control". There's also "Enable gesture delete".
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Re:Perfectly Cropped by tapland on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:12AM (#21362849)
It's all enabled.is it not working because I have multiple language keyboards available and it changes the behaviour of the space bar?
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