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	PMaff	2011-01-12 , 09:07
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Originally Posted by danramos

Yes, I'm quite sure. About the only notable thing to point out is that they vastly improved the selection method in Swype and the new Android virtual keyboard where you get draggable flags on either side of the selected text--makes selecting text by finger MUCH more accurate.

Selecting text in most applications with the fingers on N900 is no problem (as long as you do not have very thick fingers).
Without "draggable flags".
;-)

Originally Posted by danramos

I'm still not sure I follow you. It's a long-press then you pick whether to copy-all, cut-all or select text. You can long-press to paste too.

I was just talking about the fact that even Andoid users are not very
pleased with the way of selecting.

Otoh on N900 it seems to depend on the application, if you can use all selection methods (e.g. classical sweeping over text for selection like in the xterm on all Linux machines that I had up to now).
Mailtool let you sweep over text for selection in the subject line but not in the message text, there you do it with shift-left and shift right.
What I am missing is the classical double click to select a word.
But maybe some applications for N900 do even that one.

Originally Posted by danramos

I'm sure you've long-pressed to do things in Maemo. I know I have. In either case, you didn't explain how, as you had postured it, Android was lacking a cut/paste. Please explain.

I said that it is imperfect.
"i use the copy paste often and it does lack"
( http://androidforums.com/droid-suppo...paste-how.html )
But as I said above it depends on the application on the N900
also.

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