Configure the new keyboard Stevia to have arrow keys by default in the
terminal. The previous default terminal Squeekboard had separate arrow
keys as well.
While it is possible to move up/down/left/right with Stevia after
pressing the space bar and moving the finger into a given direction, I
found that it:
* Is less precise (e.g. going up exactly 1 command in the terminal,
which is my main use case, requires some effort to not go up 2 or 3
commands by accident).
* Takes longer to do this action vs. having a separate button (you need
to press space for ~a second until it goes into that special movement
mode and then take more time to carefully move where you want, a
simple button press is much quicker).
* I saw other users note on Mastodon that moving down is cumbersome for
them, given that there is not much space towards the bottom of the
screen below the space bar.
Having a lot of buttons in the list is fine IMHO, they can be scrolled
through quickly by swiping left and right.
Related: https://fosstodon.org/@phosh/114026426425496074
Part-of: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketos/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6609
[ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
Oliver Smith
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