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Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok by fragmede on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:36PM (#37634612)
An especially sucky part of editing text is changing tense or plurality. Changing "run" or "ran" or "running" is a exercise in frustration, when the editor could easily change it for you with a smarter editor.

Eg I have "bottles are falling" typed out, but I go back and edit it to say "bottle are falling", and then the editor offers to update "are" to "is" for me.

Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok by paradox460 on Sunday September 24, 2023 @01:14PM (#37635020)
Swype keyboard used to have this feature built in. Put the cursor on a word, any word (made earlier by swype's edit keyboard, which had cursor controls), and tap the Swype key. You'd be presented with a list of alternates/stems, with the current word as the root. At minimum you got simple plurals

Gboard has a similar edit keyboard, although I find it's a tad harder to get to than Swype's