Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok
by eviks on Sunday September 24, 2023 @02:13PM
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Do you know of an example?
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Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok
by mikepurvis on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:37PM
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Sadly, no. There certainly are lots of novel keyboards out there that can be googled up, but perhaps the kinds of features that would make a vim/modal-type keyboard be interesting and useful on mobile require further API hooks into the standard text-input controls (to be able to do things like find word and line boundaries, perform complex selections and replacements, etc).
I wonder if ultimately, the advantages of a "stay on the home row" philosophy like vim has just don't really manifest when there's no longer a physical keyboard as the underlying HMI. But the core idea of doing something modal and separating movement/selection from input does still feel valuable.