iOS Touch Behavior

[migueldeicaza]

I am thinking that the touch features are a bit underutilized right now.

Termius for example binds double-tap to "tab", which is convenient for tab completion on the shell.

Currently, this is what we have:

Gesture	Terminal	Notes App
Single Tap Near Cursor	Opens context menu	Opens Context Menu
Single Tap elsewhere	Nothing	Move cursor towards this place
Long tap anywhere	Open Context Menu	Moves to location, shows glass
Double tap	Selects word	Move towards tap location and word selects
Triple tap	Nothing	Selects entire line/paragraph

My concern with implementing "Move to Location" by default, is that there is no reliable way of determining if the app is in a mode where sending the cursor movement escape sequences will get us there. It is easy to programmatically send the target, but might do more damage than intended based on the app, specially when this is bound to single tap.

So I think that "Move to Location" with simple gestures is a bad idea, but might consider it if we have an external keyboard and we can use a modifier (Option-tap for example).

The question is whether I should drop the double-tap to be word-select and bind it to tab or not.

The triple tap seems like an easy choice: just implement it.