Although editing texts using iOS keyboard is not difficult, it takes quite some time to get used to it especially if you’re a new user. To enhance your experience and thus allow you to quickly make text edits, a new cydia tweak has been released in Cydia to make your life easier.
Called KeyCuts by iOS developer Noah Saso, the tweak will allow you to quickly edit texts using shortcuts or gestures on the keyboard so that you don’t have to hold on the text area in order to select all the texts. With this tweak, you can set gestures for the following:
- Doing nothing
- Deleting the last word
- Adding a space, or a period if a space exists
- Deleting the last letter
- Creating a new line
- Clearing the text
- Pasting text
- Copying selected text
- Cutting selected text
- Selecting all text
- Deleting selected text
- Undoing something
- Redoing something
- Copying all text
Once you install the tweak, a preference pane will be added to the Settings app from where you can make the configurations. It includes a toggle to enable or disable the tweak and below that, you can assign different actions to four gesture styles which include swipe left, swipe right, swipe up and swipe down. Then you can select the rows on which the gestures will work such that when you perform a gesture on that row, the action will take place. The toggles for the rows include top row, 2nd row, 3rd row and bottom row. If, for example, you enable the top row only, then the gestures will not work on any other row except the top row.
KeyCuts is not compatible with SwipeSelection, however, it works with SwipeSelection Pro given that you disable the bottom row in KeyCuts. If you’re interested in this tweak, you can purchase it from Cydia’s BigBoss repo for $0.99. The tweak works only on iOS 7 iPhone and iPod Touch and hasn’t been tested on iPad but the developer indicates that it should work fine.
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