[HN Gopher] Textual Healing: iOS Text Editing Minutiae
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Textual Healing: iOS Text Editing Minutiae
Author : interpol_p
Score : 35 points
Date : 2024-04-08 16:47 UTC (3 days ago)
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| itunpredictable wrote:
| I just came here to say that this name rocks
| stcredzero wrote:
| Text work is real work!
| snotrockets wrote:
| Marrying it to mac text APIs may be an effort, but after using
| tree-sitter, I just don't see myself parsing code for displaying
| or editing any other way.
| hbn wrote:
| > When you hold option and hit the arrow keys, you jump across by
| word. This is how the text system understands what a "word" is
| and where the next one lives.
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| I only occasionally have to use Eclipse for my work, but whenever
| I do it drives me crazy that they override this behaviour from
| how it works in every other text input in the OS.
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| If I have the string of text, applicationNumber, anywhere in
| macOS I could have my cursor to the immediate left of the word,
| hold option+shift+right and it'll select the whole word. But in
| Eclipse, the same combination selections just "application" and
| leaves "Number" unselected.
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| Terminals always tend to have their own wacky version of text
| input as well that works nothing like anything else in the OS, to
| an even worse degree. But it made me happy to find Warp[1] which
| immediately sold me on the fact that the text input works like a
| normal text input field, with all the text navigation keyboard
| combos I'm used to.
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| [1] https://www.warp.dev
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