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The fuck? I've been holding down a finger and trying to scroll to the right spot (which usually fucks up when I release the hold) for years.
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38 0 ReplyObvious? When did you learn this sorcery
27 0 Replyseveral years ago at least
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.... i'm a 90s kid....
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Holy fuck THANK YOU you've removed a regular annoyance from my life
20 0 ReplyOH MY GOD THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
19 0 ReplyEntirely depends what keyboard you're using, but usually, yeah.
18 0 ReplyAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Years of being frustrated with trying to get the cursor in the right place and I could have just been doing this??????????????????
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16 0 ReplyAre these zoomer texting secrets that let those whippersnappers type so fast??
16 0 Replyit works
12 0 ReplyGet thumb-keys.
12 0 ReplyOh gee you might as well ask me to use dvorak 😅
10 0 ReplyWhaaa I foundit very easy to adopt
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Gonna test this now
Bulltshit, on iOS it scrolls through predictive text suggestions
11 0 ReplyYou have to press and hold for a second
7 0 Replyjust doesn't work for me, assumed it must be an android thing, weird
edit:
tried it again and it is working now
5 0 ReplyIPhone doesn't need it because they have that magnifier thing above the cursor.
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11 0 ReplyHolyyyyyyyy
10 0 ReplyIt's nice but still usually a bit of a pain to move like exactly one character
AFAIK Lineage always had arrow keys in the bottom row next to the back/home/menu buttons which was super convenient
10 0 ReplyDoesn't work for me :( just brings up the change keyboard menu
9 0 ReplyAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
9 0 ReplyI just started using
Unexpected Keyboard (Lightweight and privacy-conscious virtual keyboard for Android.) https://f-droid.org/packages/juloo.keyboard2/
its pretty good, it has lots of useful shortcuts,including copy and paste
8 0 ReplyI'm testing this.
What the fuck?
8 0 ReplyOmg
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6 0 ReplyDoesn't work on Anysoft Keyboard.
6 0 Replyworks on OpenBoard
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There was a brief, glorious time when iPhone X and XS users could press firmly anywhere on the keyboard to switch to cursor control
6 0 ReplyI think if you press on the spacebar and move around you can still do this on iPhone, I've definitely used one recently that you could move the cursor up, down, left & right by moving your held finger on the spacebar.
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Idk I'm using Openboard, does not work.
4 0 ReplyFuckin a! Cool tip.
3 0 ReplyDamn
2 0 ReplySurprised by how many people don't know this. I guess thanks for making me feel young
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