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You can add an undo key to Gboard for Android (9to5google.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

how about they just give us a Ctrl key, and strangely enough, almost every shortcut become available

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

That sounds like a lot of struggle over something the predictive text bar already does ? In my experience when you delete a word, or a whole sentence, it'll be the only suggestions from the predictive bar at the top of the keyboard. Tap that suggestion and you get your stuff back.

But yeah type another letter and you are fucked…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've used Florisboard on my device for a few years now, and completely shocked at how barebones the stock Android and Samsung keyboards are...

It can undo, redo, cut, paste, select all, view/insert clipboard history, clear clipboard, and swipe to move the cursor within text. Standard stuff like voice input and swipe typing are here too.

Admittedly it's not perfect, and probably not ideal for most casual users in its current state, but I just can't go back to a standard keyboard after using this feature rich one for so long

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I tried so hard to stick to Florisboard but gboard is waaay too convenient that I keep going back to it. I wish Florisboard at least adds feature to search among emojis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

@lemann @ijeff samsung keyboard and swiftkey both have all that except undo and redo. i hope they add it soon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Standard stuff like voice input and swipe typing are here too.

How do you turn on swipe typing? And autocorrect, for that matter?

Oh, you need to install the version marked "beta". Still a pretty terrible typing experience from what I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

So... even after setting it up, I have to switch keyboards before I can undo, then switch back (or continue typing in Japanese)? I'll just retype while waiting for the official solution...

EDIT: Just today, I noticed that when I mass-delete by swiping left on the keyboard it deletes (obviously), but moves the text to the auto complete bar!? This is a single tap to restore which is way faster than the method in the article. Is this Google's implementation or a Pixel-exclusive preview feature?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope, that's been part of Gboard forever.

Gboard is frustrating because it's the best keyboard I've found, but it also has so much obvious room for improvement, but Google had hardly worked on it at all for years. For example, the way it handles ellipses and hyphens makes you fight the keyboard if you want to follow the rules of written English.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Okay, that's good to know. And I agree. I think many of Google's apps these days are pretty much fine, but they don't put the effort in to fix obvious things to get them over the line to "great"!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This is the general implementation that google has deployed for android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

For anybody using Xposed/LSPosed, there's an Undo module that gives you undo and redo in the text edit context menu (the one with copy and paste).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Samsung's keyboard has a CTRL key on their Tab line. Not sure if that extends to foldables.