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#43 Option to disable ^A
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2013-10-10
2011-06-29
Anonymous
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Originally created by: belg4...@gmail.com
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Type text, occassionally hit old-fashioned position Ctrl & A together, and clobber partial word.
2. Become annoyed.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Just an "a"
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Android 3.0.1
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Originally posted by: belg4...@gmail.com
Please please please fix this. It makes the keyboard nearly useless at decent typing speeds.
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Originally posted by: belg4...@gmail.com
The keyboard map editor would be a work-around for me, as I would swap Ctrl and Esc.
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Originally posted by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com
For the specific Ctrl+A issue, I don't think there's much I can currently do about that without breaking it for the cases where people actually do want a Ctrl+A, the keyboard unfortunately can't read your mind to know what you intended. I agree that it can be annoying though.
I'm working on user-customizable key maps, but it's slow progress. Also, it be nice if it were possible to restrict the Ctrl/Esc keys only to specific applications such as ConnectBot and a VNC client, so that the keys would be available for other purposes in other applications.
Mergedinto: 13
Status: Duplicate
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Originally posted by: belg4...@gmail.com
do about that without breaking it for the cases where people actually do
want a Ctrl+A, the keyboard unfortunately can't read your mind to know what
you intended. I agree that it can be annoying though.
Mindreading's not necessary, the original request was for a setting to flat
out disable the interpretwtion of ^A
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Originally posted by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com
Understood, but that type of hack wouldn't really fit in with the way the code is currently structured. The same problem basically exists for any unintended combination of adjacent keys, and I think it doesn't really make sense to add a special case for Ctrl+A, but not for others such as Z+X or '+Enter.
I think it is better to provide the option of replacing the Ctrl key with a different one via customizable layouts.
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Originally posted by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com
Reopening this bug, since Ctrl-A now triggers "Select all" on Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and later, and this can lead to lost text when the next keystroke replaces the selection.
A simple "Ignore Ctrl-A" option would do the job but seems ugly, I'd prefer to have something which doesn't require toggling an option in settings for the cases where you actually want that key combination, but I agree that the current behavior is unpleasant, especially with this Ctrl key placement.
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Originally posted by: Brig...@gmail.com
Thank you so much, I would love to see this fixed!
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Originally posted by: gbc...@gmail.com
Yeah, it's very annoying have a complete long text being lost because ctrl+a.
If at least every time that you pressed ctrl+a the keyboard copied the text to the clipboard automatically, we could paste it again without losing everything.
Thank you.
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Originally posted by: palado1...@gmail.com
I have run into this issue a couple of times using evernote. Ctrl-a deletes all text in my note. What about a long press to activate the ctrl and alt functions?
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Originally posted by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com
Sorry about the lost text, I'll raise priority on addressing this specifically. I had been hoping to do this alongside customizable keymaps, but due to extreme lack of time it's unclear when I'll get a chance to do so.
Auto-copying text to the clipboard would be unsafe, I think a common (intentional) use of Ctrl-A is to replace text with something previously copied to the clipboard, i.e. moving text between different text entry boxes. It would be unfriendly to clobber the clipboard content in that case.
Would an option to swap Ctrl and Esc in the current full 5-row layout work for you? Adding a long-press distinction or specifically disabling Ctrl-A would be more work and seems clunky. An undo (distinct from the clipboard) such as Ctrl-Z would be nice, but I'm unsure if that's feasible without support from the application receiving input.
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Originally posted by: gbc...@gmail.com
I think that changing the ESC by the Ctrl should be fine, or better for most cases.
I agree with Klaus about the clipboard, didn't thought about that on first time.
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Originally posted by: jyoj...@gmail.com
This is constantly getting me. I have to ditch Hacker's keyboard for anything outside of connectbot. Please consider any sort of stop-gap hackery that would allow ctrl-a to be disabled. Selecting text and copy/paste are cases that the OS handles already anyway.
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Originally posted by: GarbageG...@gmail.com
This happens to me 3/6 texts. Was a fix found?
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Originally posted by: Herb.Eys...@gmail.com
As one that actually uses "Select All" functionality of Ctrl-A (and want to continue to have "Select All" available), I've also often experienced the unwanted behavior of replacing all of my typed text. However...
I'd like to propose an alternate solution: Narrow the width of the "Ctrl" key and widen the gap next to the "A" key. Many physical PC keyboards do this with the "Caps Lock" key, the usual neighbor of the "A" key - at least in my experience. I'll be interested in hearing what others think about this.
Thanks