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archerxyesterday at 9:22 AM1 replyview on HN

Wow that’s interesting but I don’t think I would ever use that. I can actually type really quickly with the touch keyboard but the problem is going back to correct things. On iOS getting the cursor to move back to a previous part of the text to fix an error is and adventure in frustration. Even holding down the space button and draggging the text cursor around is awful. A lot of the times it’s just faster and easier to erase large chunks of text and rewrite it.


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cess11yesterday at 12:48 PM

Yeah, I really missed Penti when I had to use an iOS device for work for a while.

I'm mostly in a terminal, commonly in vim, where the 'regular keyboard' experience makes text and code editing quite convenient compared to the usual software keyboard suspects. In web forms and the like it's also fairly convenient, one can send move left and then hit repeat until the correct position (or any number of arrow key equivalents for moving rows). I hardly ever move the cursor by pointing somewhere in the text.

It took me something like three weeks to become really fluent in Penti, back in 2017-2018 I think.