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Long-press on backspace to erase entire word
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Not really a problem, but it would be practical, especially when editing text, if one could erase entire words just by long-pressing backspace. Some older, no longer supported keyboards, like Swype, had this function.
This would be a nice feaure to have.
On AnySoftKeyboard, you can also hold Shift and press backspace, that would be another option as well.
As an optional option it sounds ok. I wouldn't want to be forced to delete words that way. I much prefer the slow deletion of letters from words while holding backspace.
And whole words can already be deleted quite quickly. Just add a "select word" button to the suggestion bar.
I think, to clarify your feature, as I used Swype for years, what you want is, long press continually deletes entire words — it's repeated as long as you hold down the delete key = faster deletion of large amounts of text.
It's not just delete a single word — that would be somewhat useless as it's just as fast to delete swipe.
Personally this is another reason I would like to see a editing layout = fast selection of text for cut, copy, delete, etc.
I think optionally deleting entire words using the "delete swipe" feature would be an optimal solution as it gives more control over the deletion.
+1! This was a feature of SwiftKey. Long-press to delete word plus a short long-press duration makes fixing errors super fast. I've gotten used to the swipe-to-delete gesture, which is awesome, but it's just not quite as fast.
Long press can default to deletion by characters (as it is now) and when pressed longer than some amount of time (or when deleted more than x characters), it would switch to deletion by words.
I know people have different habits, but personally I switched to to swipe deletion, where I'm in full control of how much I delete and can go back if I overshoot. I recommend to try this. (If gestures are enabled.)
I know people have different habits, but personally I switched to to swipe deletion, where I'm in full control of how much I delete and can go back if I overshoot. I recommend to try this. (If gestures are enabled.)
I also use swipe deletion a lot, but if you want to delete whole block of text, you have to either swipe, swipe, swipe... or select text area and tap on backspace. Sometimes holding backspace is easier (for someone as lazy as me :D).
Having both options for different use-cases is ideal for me.
I agree with @Uranusek. I prefer the current behavior which deletes character by character when long pressing delete. This has more precision because you don't always want to delete entire words. Deleting word by word can cause you to delete more than you want especially since you can't predict the speed of deletion since some words are short while some are long.
Long press can default to deletion by characters (as it is now) and when pressed longer than some amount of time (or when deleted more than x characters), it would switch to deletion by words.
I don't agree with ghost's suggestion. That burdens me by having to be aware of how long I press the delete button when I just want to do character deletes. I don't want it to switch to word deletion midway.
I agree that the timng is tricky for long presses, but also would prefer word by word deletion. So ideal for me is swipe left to delete exactly one word. That's what I got used to with the Microsoft keyboard.
Maybe words could be deleted with Shift + Backspace like it usually is on PC keyboards.