The keyboard should have cursor keys

[AlainKnaff]

There many places, other than the terminal, where users might enter text, in which they might make typoes:
- URLs in browsers
- messages
- ...

However, the keyboard only has cursor keys in the terminal app, but nowhere else.

At least left/right would be handy to fix typoes. Indeed, trying to move cursor by tap is very dicey, due to phat phingers and absence of a stylus.

... or if this is considered "opinion", maybe it could become a configuration option?

Note: even Android has a so-called "hacker's keyboard" app which does have cursor keys (... and other niceties). As Ubuntu phone is a "hacker's phone" by essence, maybe cursor keys should be standard here :-)

[AlainKnaff (kubuntu-misc)]

... and worse, there are some text fields which can contain longer text than field size. Without cursor keys, there seems to be no obvious way to scroll these back/forth to see beginning/end of text

[Joan CiberSheep (cibersheep)]

Indeed!
Or at least have a better way of moving the cursor. Sometimes it is easier to delete the word.

[AlainKnaff (kubuntu-misc)]

Any news on this? What's the reason for the lack of progress here? Is it really technically difficult to implement this, or is it "something else"?

[Bob Harvey (bobharvey)]

See also Bug #1574429 where I also suggested tab and another shift key

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.