Help Text Editing Questions

[gmaellex01]

Two questions:

1:Why doesn't the text suggestion box, which helps you type faster, come up in certain fields? For instance, when filling.out the subject field for this thread word suggestions weren't displayed.

2:When I'm writing an email, if I want to select a block of text to copy or delete I can only select all. I don't have this problem when selecting bits of text to copy on a webpage, only when I'm actively editing text.

Cheers fellas and girls!

 

[Taylored]

You should be able to change that in settings/keyboard.

 

[gmaellex01]

You should be able to change that in settings/keyboard.

No, it's not there. Anyways, text selection is my main problem. For instance if I'm quoting a post in a forum and I want to delete a large portion of the quoted text to emphasise the part I'm responding to then I have to delete the text letter by letter. Why does the select tool not work when I'm editing text?

 

[gmaellex01]

You should be able to change that in settings/keyboard.

Found it.

Still can't select text while editing, however. It lets me select all, but that's it.

Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[Outatime]

Yeah, that would be one of my very few complaints with Android so far is the copy/paste function doesn't work everywhere.

 

[gmaellex01]

Yeah, that would be one of my very few complaints with Android so far is the copy/paste function doesn't work everywhere.

Any word on whether Froyo fixes this problem? It should be simple...

 

[moogaloo]

I've also found this an irritating omission in android. The copy selector is perfect for moving the cursor round and selecting text in a browser, and would be perfect in a text / search field.

I wonder if there's some kind of patent issue that prevents it - its the kinda thing Apple would patent and prevent others from implementing.