Customize key shortcut band

[ulvund]

Can I add keys to the shortcut band in a new version of blink? Like : for vim navigation?

[carloscabanero]

We have this in our backlog. The idea is that the central part of smart keys can be configured for other applications. So you can send emacs or vim commands when you are on them, just by tapping, instead of doing the keyboard combo.

This is still in the backlog and we have a few things to work out before, but I will make sure Blink does that ;)

[drbarrett]

One more vote for this, or even just add the : to the smart key list

[Parakleta]

This is more relevant now that Apple has added the pull for punctuation feature on their keyboard. A lot of the characters in the smart key list are trivial to access directly (in fact all of them except tab are available as 'pull-down' characters on the alphabetic or number/symbol keyboards), but I cannot find a way to access the backtick (grave) character efficiently.

[carloscabanero]

We have a branch that includes this, but unfortunately I'm not able to prioritise this yet. So lets add them directly to the SmartKeys bar. Other than the : and the backtick, any other characters you would like me to add?

[Parakleta]

I don’t know if there’s a resource that shows all of the iPad/iPhone keyboards in each language, but the priority should be those keys not on the alphabetic or numeric/punctuation shifted keyboard (i.e. directly available, or one shift away). On the iPad English keyboard, [,.!?] is on alphabetic, and [-@#$&*()'"%+=/;:] on the numeric/punctuation keyboard, so this leaves [<>[\]{}\\^_`|~] as not trivially accessible (12 characters in total).

Obviously TAB and ESC as control characters are quite useful, but I’m not sure why currently one is within the shortcut band and one without.

[mladenmarkov]

Can’t we have these configurable? I frequently use the backslash and dot, along with tab in blink on an iPhone, and I’d like to have those closely together.

[tbrowder]

I regularly need the back-tick char (left single quotation mark) and can't find it anywhere.

[goerz]

If you're using the standard iOS software keyboard, tap and hold the ' key (on the "123" keyboard pane). This gives you a choice between different single quotes/accents, as well as the backtick.

[yury]

Also, you can tap and hold 123 button, then move to ' and force touch it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoO1k7kVIWA

This bring you back to abc after inserting char.

[tbrowder]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 13:37 Yury Korolev [email protected] wrote:

Also, you can tap and hold 123 button, then move to ' and force touch it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoO1k7kVIWA

Works great! Thanks.

-Tom

[maurizio-manuguerra-mq]

Can’t we have these configurable? I frequently use the backslash and dot, along with tab in blink on an iPhone, and I’d like to have those closely together.

Is this going to happen? The possibility to customize the smartkeys bar seems like an obvious feature. As it is, it is not very helpful for a variety of use cases.

[sfatula]

This would be extremely useful and productive

[ghost]

Any outlook on this? Would be very helpful for me

[yury]

Hi @jonwillpoe.

Just for me, what you want to add/remove there?

[ghost]

Hello @yury I’d like to have a “:” (colon), replace backslash with forward slash, and replace brackets with parentheses.

[yury]

You don’t have them in swipe access on main kb?

Can you screenshot your kb?

[ghost]

[yury]

Yep, you have them all on main kb. I don’t know, but I’d train muscle memory on default kb

[ghost]

Good enough (actually didn’t even know you could swipe down to access layers). Thank you for your replies. If possible, I still think it would also be useful to change the position of the shortcut band keys and even the keys themselves at some point.