Move around your trackpad on a terminal window and watch the chatter. To delete hold the track button and click w.
CTRL+w = delete one word back. Not sure if it "cuts" the word as well.
nub to android. Maybe I should RTFM!
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Hi,
Is there any way to make it easier to insert the "£" symbol when typing using the HTC keyboard? At the moment I have to press 12#, then 1/2 before I can find the "£" symbol. It would be so much easier if it was on a long press of one of the other keys on the keyboard, eg if you long press "f" you get a "$" symbol, or long press "s" you get an "@" symbol.
Cheers
snerkler said:
Hi,
Is there any way to make it easier to insert the "£" symbol when typing using the HTC keyboard? At the moment I have to press 12#, then 1/2 before I can find the "£" symbol. It would be so much easier if it was on a long press of one of the other keys on the keyboard, eg if you long press "f" you get a "$" symbol, or long press "s" you get an "@" symbol.
Cheers
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Have a look for
"Currency Symbols for Keyboard.cab"
that may be what you need. It puts all teh currency symbols on the one key.
Please READ the Hints and tips sticky for the answer
See Point 50 in the FAQ thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638&highlight=step2p+Currency+Key
DMAND said:
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I must have read that sticky like 10 times, and I haven't seen that. I think a trip to specsavers is needed
Cheers by the way
I just got my Droid Pro and I'm loving it. My old Galaxy phone had arrow keys and I'm getting used to not having them on the DP. I can't figure out how to do something that used to be easy on the Galaxy.
In certain apps that have history lists, like the Market app, I could easily modify an existing search term by using the down arrow key to auto-fill it, and then edit the text and search for it. On the DP this doesn't seem possible since I can't arrow down, and if I touch the history item it immediately searches on it, and then I can't edit the search term.
For example, say I search the market for "volume" but don't find anything useful so I need to search again. On my Galaxy I could just type "v" and the history list would show "volume", I click the down arrow once to fill the search box with that and then type " scroll" after that, to search for "volume scroll".
Is there any way to do this on the DP? I've googled a while but its not an easy thing to search for, haven't found anything on how to do this.
Well, after hours of googling and testing, I found some solutions. There are a number of virtual d-pad and trackball apps out there, but I wanted something a little more seamless. I found ButtonRemapper (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464) and I used it to remap the Voice key on my DP, and now that key is equivalent to the down-arrow key.
Sigh of happiness. Now I can keep my fingers on the keyboard when filling out forms on a web page, so no more type then touch then type then touch then type. And I can edit history list items like form-fill and such, so I don't have to keep re-typing my searches to modify them.
I still haven't found what I'm really looking for... I'd like a way to dynamically remap hard keys. For example, if I'm in the Market app or a web browser, the volume rocker would get converted into up and down arrow keys. If I'm not in those apps then the volume keys would act normally and adjust the volume.
Is there a way to change the transformers dock to accept shift as the "shift" button, and furthermore, delete the "select input method" shortcut?
When trying to use ctrl+shift+arrow keys, it won't go from word to word. I know this might be an issue in apps, but when connected remotely to my desktop, I can't do ctrl+shift+arrow. It doesn't recognize it as the ctrl and shift key so it just goes ignores their press.
New to android and looking desperately for a solution to this now useless dock. If there is no solution, I'm selling this thing. Whole reason I got it was to edit docs in the go and have good battery and lightweight. -_-
EDIT: I've cross posted this in the android q&a, but only recently saw that there was a transformer forum so posted here as it is more appropriate. Excuse me.
hi guys
i know this is more like an android question than the note...but hope my fellow note owner can help me solve this
i am an iphone user previously and whenever i wanna correct text in a search box, all i have to do is to press the word, hold it, and the magnifying glass comes up and i can scroll it left to right to place the curser right on the letter i want to edit
however with anroid there is no such magnifying glass and i must tap the letter i want to make the changes to..this might takes few trys to get the curser right beside the letter i want to make changes to...however my biggest problem is that i cannot correct words that are beyond the length of the search bar
for example the width of the google search bar only fit 3 words, and the forth or fifth word is not display...how do i scroll to these words to malw corrections ? it is annoying as i usually need to erase the whole phrase to make corrections ...
also how do i scroll up and down with forum boxes like this one i am typing in...iphone use two fingers...
thank you!!!
To place the cursor, just tap the screen where you need it. If it's not in the right place, put your finger on the pointy topped blue handle just under it and slide it where you need it.
When using the Swype keyboard (long press on any text box, select input method, then choose it from the list of installed keyboards) you can just tap on any word and it'll bring up a list of other words you might have meant to type. Tap on the one you want and the word changes. Makes for very quick editing of text. If the word's not in the list, just hit the Swype key, the word is highlighted, and Swype it again. Swyping is where you put your finger on the first letter of a word and drag it to the other letters, then lift it when done. It'll automatically insert spaces since each Swype is a word. It's a lot faster than pecking out text on conventional keyboards.
For scrolling large text boxes where the text more than fills it, just drag it up and down with one finger. Works fine for me in this post I'm doing now. The issue with the google search box where long entries go past the end does suck. I haven't found anything better for that than just deleting it all and starting over (Swyping from Swype key to letter A selects all.) Or sometimes you can just hit search then change it on the Web page.
BTW, concerning large text boxes, I've found Opera Mobile is the only browser that reflows the text inside so you don't have to constantly scroll left/right to see what you're writing. You couldn't pay me to write a post like this on any other browser!
Edit: on some keyboards, Swype included, you can bring up a set of arrow keys you could use to scroll over to the right on those long entries in the google search box.
Coming from the Note 1, I didn't realize that I would miss the lack of a search button until I opened the browser and had to click on the URL bar before I could type into it. With one hand, that's almost impossible. Used to just tap on the search button and it would highlight the URL text so I could erase and type something else. Now I either need to use two hands or readjust so my thumb can reach the top and then readjust again to type on the keyboard.
So my question is: can I re-map anything to replicate this function? I tried to find something to re-map a long-press of the back button but had no luck. And I don't want to do a combo-button press such as Home+Back in Home2. I don't even know what function I would assign to it anyway, that would highlight the text in the URL field. Any help is appreciated.