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Setting to toggle/change 'spacebar cursor control' #377
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Feature description
A setting to turn off/change 'spacebar cursor control' that it doesn't activate immediately on swipe. But that you turn it off or only it you hold the space or something.
Why do you want this feature?
Because since the feature has been changed in version 1.8.0 I have each about 10 words that I accidentally swipe back one position(When after I hit space and type a letter on the left side of the keyboard) meaning you don't have a space between the two words and the last letter ends up at the end of a setence:
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It is a bit frustating to have to retype part of each setence that happens. But I understand it can be useful so it would be good if it would be toggleable.
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Reacted by RJGhugo and Thomas Piekarski
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naveensingh commentedon Jan 21, 2026
It would be better to tune the activation threshold so this doesn't happen. I haven't observed this issue with Gboard, and spacebar cursor control is also activated immediately there.
RJGhugo commentedon Jan 23, 2026
I would like to have a switch to turn the feature on/off.
e.g. during a shaky riding with public transport...
tpiekarski commentedon Nov 10, 2026
Any news about this feature?
This spacebar swipe is very annoying. I constantly move the cursor before the last 1-2 characters of the previous word while tapping the spacebar and keep pushing these characters with the next word. You can imagine the mess when it happens more often in a sentence.
Should no one started I could take a look into it and try to create a PR. But I won't care about tuning a threshold, I'd rather want a boolean toggle to disable that swipe like already mentioned by RJGhugo.
SpaceTim15 commentedon Nov 12, 2026
I didn't hear anything. But I keep having the same problems. So if at least something done for it I'm happy. I think a booleans toggle is good for now.