Need swipe-actions for "Press backspace" and "Press space" and "Press key uppercased"

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Open settings of Hackers's Keyboard from system settings
2.Go to Gestures and key actions
3.Go Swipe left

There are no item "Press backspace" and "Press space" and "Press key 
uppercased", but this actions was very useful in almost every keyboards on my 
old Windows Mobile device.

What version of Hacker's Keyboard are you using? 
1.29.1288 2012-01-13

On what phone or tablet?
Samsung Galaxy Note

Original issue reported on code.google.com by INNenashev on 23 Feb 2012 at 3:16

• Merged into: #84

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Agree, adding extra actions is already on the roadmap. In general I'd want 
pretty much any action currently available from the keyboard to be bindable to 
gestures or hardware keys.

I want to do some cleanups before adding tons more since the current 
implementation isn't well suited to having a huge number of actions, but that's 
fairly straightforward to change.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2012 at 6:21

• Changed title: Need swipe-actions for "Press backspace" and "Press space" and "Press key uppercased"
• Changed state: Accepted

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Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2012 at 6:25

• Changed state: Duplicate

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I'm don't  need a tons of actions, I need only this! 
And if this actions will be assigned by default (like it was in Windows 
mobile), I will be happy!
There are backspace at Swype left, space at right and shifted key at Swype up 
from this key.
It was very useful!

Original comment by INNenashev on 23 Feb 2012 at 6:36

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Not sure we're talking about the same thing. The swipe actions I'm talking 
about and that are currently implemented are a large gesture across the 
keyboard, and it doesn't matter which key they start at or end on, just the 
general direction. It's unrelated to the "Swype" input method, and I'm not 
familiar with what Windows Mobile was doing.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2012 at 7:52

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swype left and swype right from my comment - are a large gestures just as You 
write.

But swype up from any key - really is a key-related short gesture, which is 
really now absent in hacker's keyboard.

And this three gestures are really useful! I loved it on Windows mobile.

Original comment by INNenashev on 23 Feb 2012 at 8:24

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Please use the word "swipe" when referring to the well-known gesture, "Swype" 
with "y" is presumably a trademark for a specific and different input method.

Anyway, I do plan to add the large gesture support as described in issue 84, I 
just don't want to do so on a key by key basis - this should be more generic. 
You personally may want space+backspace, others have already requested "delete 
word" and Ctrl/Tab/Alt, and this way lies madness. 

I don't currently have plans to add drag actions to individual keys, I think 
this would be likely to conflict with long-press detection and may be hard to 
trigger reliably.

As an alternative, I intend to support "shift" as a swipe gesture, so you could 
do a large "swipe up" gesture to uppercase the next key. 

Also, are you aware of the settings option to add uppercased versions to the 
long-press popups? This works fairly well when combined with a reduced 
long-press wait time.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2012 at 8:39

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sorry, I will never use Swype for abstract gestures.

but I know Swype as a trademark - is a concurrent keyboard with complicated 
gestures over keys in typing words, which collect this key for guessing this 
words. It is far far away from simple long-distance gestures unrelated to keys 
under it, configurable in Hacker's Keyboard.

Short gesture (to two-three rows up from a each key) can't conflict with long 
pressing, it can conflict only with long vertical up-directed gesture unrelated 
to keys. It can be one option in settings to enable it for shift, which will 
also disable setup for that long vertical up-directed gesture unrelated to keys.

It can be feature separated from issue #84

Original comment by INNenashev on 23 Feb 2012 at 8:57