Moving the cursor
To fix a word in the middle of a sentence, move the cursor to it with the space bar. There is no need to aim a fingertip at the text.
Hold the space bar, then slide
- Press the space bar and keep still until it buzzes. That takes under half a second. The keys fade, and the bar shows a cursor between two arrows.
- Slide left or right. The cursor moves one letter for each short step.
- Slide up or down to move a line at a time, in fields with several lines.
- Lift your finger when the cursor is where you want it.
Your finger can leave the space bar and travel over the whole keyboard while you slide. A slide counts along the way it mostly goes, so a sideways slide that drifts a little doesn't jump lines.
Whatever you were typing is kept as it stands when the cursor starts to move. When you lift with the cursor at the end of a word, Flikzi opens that word again: the next letters you type join it, and the strip offers words it could become.
It doesn't change deleting
Swiping the space bar still deletes and restores. The two never mix, because of what comes first:
- Swipe straight away: deletes (left) or restores (right). Deleting
- Hold still first, then slide: moves the cursor.
A quick tap still types a space.
Where it stops
The cursor stops at the start and the end of the text. In a field with one line, such as a search box, sliding up or down does nothing.