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Proposal for a better text editor

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Chuck McKnight:
I love the fact that Rockbox has a text editor, but it's not exactly the easiest thing to use. The idea is right, but IMO the layout could be better. My proposal:

Only four lines of characters needed at the top:

--- Code: ---ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[ENTER]
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz[SPACE]
,.;:?!'"-+=*/\()[]@#$%&_|
1234567890
--- End code ---
These characters represent the ones on a standard keyboard most commonly used. The rest would be accessible from the menu. Comparable to inserting a symbol in Word.

The scroll-wheel would move sideways instead of up and down which the up and down buttons would do.

When the cursor moves down to the number row, it would jump to "0" if it was past the "j."

The overall idea is to minimize the amount of movement needed to get to the characters to allow for faster typing.

Opinions?



Edit: Another possible layout:

--- Code: ---ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
`1234567890-=[]\;',./[SPACE]
~!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:"?[ENTER]
--- End code ---

Chronon:
You can load your own custom keyboard layouts.  See here: LoadableKeyboardLayouts

Chuck McKnight:
Ah, sweet. ;D Thanks for the link!

I wonder why my searches didn't find that? ???

Chronon:
Eh, sometimes I find I need to try a couple of different keyword combinations.  I first searched for custom keyboard, but that didn't give me the link.  Searching for keyboard layout returned the result that I wanted.  

Glad to be of service.   :)

Alfox:
Thanks for this tip. The very small default font on the text editor is hardly visible to me and made it practically unusable.
I was wondering if all Rockbox users have 20/20 vision. :)

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