text editing - moving one char.

[Guest TomskWomble]

Orange San Francisco, as it comes out the box ROM.

When editing a text message (or anything for that matter) how do I move the cursor ONE character at time?

On my WinMo phone it had a hardware d-pad.

On my Archois 5IT the Android keyboard has a couple of lewft/right cursor keys.

On my SanFran I stab roughly to the right of where I want to edit, delete a few characters and retype.

[Guest xzyk]

Orange San Francisco, as it comes out the box ROM.

When editing a text message (or anything for that matter) how do I move the cursor ONE character at time?

On my WinMo phone it had a hardware d-pad.

On my Archois 5IT the Android keyboard has a couple of lewft/right cursor keys.

On my SanFran I stab roughly to the right of where I want to edit, delete a few characters and retype.

not all keyboards have this funcitonality. One that does is TouchPal, although i'm sure there are others. In TouchPal just long press the bottom left-hand key displaying a pencil with a full stop underneath it and it will take you to the cursor controls you want.

[Guest Magnets]

with HTC_IME you can use the volume keys to move characters.

[Guest oh!dougal]

with HTC_IME you can use the volume keys to move characters.

That Volume Key functionality is under User Interface in the HTC_IME Settings.

TouchPal offers a cursor control keypad (hold down the pencil ("Edit") key ...)

Edited December 20, 2010 by oh!dougal

[Guest stanno]

In TouchPal just long press the bottom left-hand key displaying a pencil with a full stop underneath it and it will take you to the cursor controls you want.

That works! Cheers.

[Guest TomskWomble]

not all keyboards have this funcitonality. One that does is TouchPal, although i'm sure there are others. In TouchPal just long press the bottom left-hand key displaying a pencil with a full stop underneath it and it will take you to the cursor controls you want.

Thanks.

[Guest Stuart_f]

The swype keyboard has arrows. Just swype from the swype icon to the "SYM" key.

(They don't make this feature obvious though!)

[Guest TomDroid]

The swype keyboard has arrows. Just swype from the swype icon to the "SYM" key.

(They don't make this feature obvious though!)

Cracking tip my friend, it was driving me batsh!t mental that I had to keep on deleting more than I needed to correct one letter! :)