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by ksynwa 561 days ago
I'm getting a little bit of anxiety just reading about this. I hate typing on phone especially if the text haa symbols mixed in. I mistype a lot more often on phone and often somehow skip entire words. (Don't know what the cause of this is.)

I am guessing they using some specialised keyboard that makes it easier to type symbols etc.

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He posted a recording in which you can see how he works https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom...
Why is there no keyboard on the screen there?
Height of the viewport suggests that onscreen keyboard was opened but not recorded. Here is another video where keyboard was recorded: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom...
Ahh very nice! Can't do that without accurate fingers, for sure.
Same observation. I don't know how or why, but I seemingly words, and I absolutely have to reread what I wrote, and usually do updates after that. And every time I'm surprised by how bad mistakes I made.
:-) clever
Feeling that anxiety here, too.

There's some okay text editors for Android, Hacker's Keyboard (which I still use) and of course Termux. The tools are all there, but when I tried to write simple little scripts on mobile, it was all the nightmare I thought it would be.

Been using smartphone touchscreens for a decade+ now and still feel like an old man that just can't get used to this new-fangled way of doing things. You can look back at my comment history to see the types of errors my brain, thumbs and far-sighted eyes love to produce. I honestly do not know what I was thinking when I decided to practice code on these devices, but that quickly ended.

I would guess termux and a bluetooth keyboard perhaps?
He doesn't even use a keyboard: > Minus the keyboard, actually.
Or maybe they spent more time thinking before writing so they didn't have to rewrite it so much.

Either way, very painful

I think best when I'm writing (code) though. It keeps my mind focused especially on the task at hand. I've been given feedback that I jump too quickly into code, but that's the way for me to focus. I would prefer to write a quick throwaway prototype as opposed to form some sort of plan or document. Otherwise my mind will wonder or I get some sort of anxiety.