When I’m trying to highlight text in an existing Draft so as to copy or share or whatever, the highlighting function is so fast that I can’t help but highlight 10x as much text as I need. Is there a way to slow down the speed and/or amount of text when highlighting?
I think this is my only complaint about Drafts.
I’m guessing you have “Typewriter” mode enabled in Editor Settings? It has some side effects that make selection a little wonky at times. Try turning it off and you should be fine.
I’m seeing the same behavior and don’t have “Typewriter” enabled.
I tried toggling “Typewriter”, but no change in scroll speed
Thanks
Bob
Maybe share a screen capture demonstrating this behavior? Text selection in Drafts is standard OS functionality, not really anything custom about it. I’ve not seen anything odd about it in my testing.
You can, of course, use actions to assist here…it’s pretty easy to write scripts that extend the selection, move the cursor, or just copy text fragments.
I agree with OP David that this is a problem. On either iPad or iPhone, on a draft with the keyboard open, if you start a selection then drag one of the anchors with finger or pencil, the cursor point moves around rapidly and erratically. This makes it hard to position the other end of the selection where you want it.
Like Bob I have Typewriter Scrolling turned off.
The problem is not so bad on very short drafts; it’s worse if the draft is longer than the window height. I think that has something to do with the way scrolling works in Drafts. When you drag above or below the currently visible window onto the text, Drafts suddenly jumps up or down a long way. Once the place you are after is in the visible window, you can indeed position the cursor there, but it can be hard to reach that stage.
Sorry but I don’t think this is a general iOS problem. It doesn’t occur in Editorial, which scrolls less rapidly and more smoothly than Drafts as you go above or below the visible window. This means you can easily position the selection anchor with precision.
I made a screen-capture video on my iPad illustrating the problem, but when I tried to copy it into this post I got “Sorry, the file you are trying to upload is not authorized (authorized extensions: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, heic, heif, webp, avif).” Is there a way round that?
Put it on YouTube and then post the link here.
Useful suggestion thanks, but I don’t use YouTube. I’ve mailed the video to Drafts Support instead.
To be fair to Drafts, since making it I’ve noticed that Bear Notes and even Apple Notes indeed do have much the same problem. Editorial avoids it however: its scrolling is slower and smoother. I hope there is some way of emulating that.