# The invisible problem – Scott Jenson

<https://jenson.org/text/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Jenson presents a thoughtful assessment of how bad detailed editing of text is on mobile devices, along with a recommended improvement. I like this article cause it hits on something we all struggle with but have sort of accepted, to his point of it being invisible. At one point iOS offered a 2-finger drag on the keyboard to emulate arrow keys. That isn't there anymore but I really miss it. Personally, I almost never attempt to do this kind of detailed text editing on my mobile device because it is maddening.

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- [WT263: Weekly Thing 263 / Copilot, Del.icio.us, Pancake](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/263/), Notable

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