Have you ever found that your iOS's solution for doing text editing is pretty troublesome? Similar to how you would prefer to use your keyboard to navigate to a particular spot in an article simply because moving your hand to the mouse is troublesome, i find having to change over to selecting the text is an inconvenience. (This may not be the case for people who do not have to type very often)
Along with a concept video released last week, a jailbreak tweak was created to allow you to navigate through what you are currently typing, simply by swiping through your keyboard, named SwipeSelection. It even allows you to either scroll through your text at higher speeds by using 2 fingers, or allowing you to select a string of text by starting your swipe from the shift button. You can see a video created by iDownloadblog for a view of the tweak in action.
If you think this tweak is very useful for you, you can head over to your cydia app and do a search for it, since it is hosted on the big boss repo, which is by default included already when you install cydia.
For those who do not wish to jailbreak but are interested to try this concept out, you can wait for an app due to be released soon, named SlideWriter. The app will basically be a text editor which will provide the functions similarly, though implemented in a slightly different way.
Honestly I think this tweak makes a lot of sense and I can see Apple making this a default function in the future. Hopefully we will see this in iOS 6!
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