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Swiping for keyboard shortcuts #414

Open terrypa opened 3 years ago

terrypa commented 3 years ago

First of all, just installed it, love it!

TL:DR in one picture: Just swipe for all useful functionality from you normal keyboard https://i.imgur.com/bXE23W7.png

Longer version: I propose feature that was once present on "Swype" keyboard back in the early android https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/02/19/swype-keyboard-now-discontinued/ and this was awesome functionality, it give user same possibility as on ordinary keyboard on PC, -no more rewriting from scratch after unintentional delete just swipe 123 to X = (CTRL+X) -no more pressing delete just 123 to Z =(CTRL+Z) -no need for unnecessary holding for selecting all message just swipe from 123 to A = (CTRL+A) -faster first and last line select

Cheers !

PLAYERUNKNOWNHatsune01 commented 3 years ago

Is this work on Dvorak ???

YMan84 commented 3 years ago

Nintype (Keyboard 69) on the playstore has this feature as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jormy.sixtynine

I came here to ask for this feature as well. Keyboard 69 does it a little differently though, you execute the commands by dragging down from one of the letters to the space key. (Aka drag down from V to the space bar to paste your text, drag down from C to space to copy your text) and it’s customizable so you can choose which keys you want to do which actions.

OpenBoard already has the ability to swipe the backspace to delete whole words, would be really awesome if it had more gestures added for other tasks!