Question: How to go back to previous letter selection?

[ghost]

Question
I am currently new and still learning this keyboard. While selecting letter as shown in video, i am unable to go to previous letter. In the video, i want to go back to a from r

If there is no way to go back to previous letter, please consider it a feature request. Going back to previous letter would be helpful for newcomers

2023-11-27_11-47-45_001_001.mp4

[Aiz0]

Going back to previous sector is considered a movement.
Some layouts use this to type letters with diacritics.
I don't think being able to undo part of movement sequence is good idea if it would remove that feature.

[MaethorNaur]

Hi, unfortunately, the only way to undo is to either lift your finger or to do an unrecognised movement (which reset the sequence).
As @Aiz0 stated going back is considered as part of sequence (diacritics or other characters).
However, this might be possible (more complex code). I'm opening a poll (#430) to see if that feature interests other people.

[ghost]

@MaethorNaur
Can it possible to just import custom keyboard layout which shows previous letter selection instead of diacritics?
Will the custom layout would help mimic same behaivour as going back to previous character?🤔
By this, complex code can be avoided i think😅
But i cant find any user friendly keyboard layout generator😅

[MaethorNaur]

Diacritics are specific to a language (French, German, Spanish, ...) I don't think there's any layout with backtracking, but even if there's one it would be complex.
But If you are brave enough you can make your own (https://github.com/8VIM/8VIM/wiki/Adding-a-new-language) from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/8VIM/8VIM/master/8vim/src/main/res/raw/en.yaml.

I'm currently migrating all code to Kotlin/Compose then the next step will be to have a more beginner-friendly approach (tutorial/mapping/...)

[loopernow]

Hi, unfortunately, the only way to undo is to either lift your finger or to do an unrecognised movement (which reset the sequence). As @Aiz0 stated going back is considered as part of sequence (diacritics or other characters). However, this might be possible (more complex code). I'm opening a poll (#430) to see if that feature interests other people.

I came to the issues page with the same question as OP, because I'm a beginner too! I didn't realize you could just lift your finger--I definitely think this needs to be mentioned in the introductory explanation of how to use this keyboard! I was trying to "go back" as well. Cheers.

(Also, I couldn't figure out how to do an "unrecognized movement" after reading your comment. I tried and tried. I think simply lifting your finger is much simpler.)