8vim Keyboard

8vim Keyboard

An Editor-in-Keyboard, inspired by vim and 8pen

8vim is an open source small screen keyboard designed to overcome the limitation of small typing space and provide tools for the user to have full text editor style editing capabilities in any text box they are typing.

Usability Guide

So what features does 8Vim have? Once you know how to type with this (learn to type with this original [8Pen-game App] (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eightpen.android.wordcup&hl=en), you should know the following

Basic Things Needed

The right sector acts as a backspace key.

The bottom sector acts as an Enter key.

The top sector acts as a combination of the SHIFT key and CAPS_LOCK, that is, press once Shift is active, press CAPS twice and press once more and everything will return to normal.

The left sector acts as the button that takes you to the numeric keypad.

Cursor movements

If you move your finger from the center circle to any sector and stay, the cursor movement will be emulated. For example, if you swipe from circle->right, the cursor will move to the right. You get the photo.

Selection

There is selection built into the keyboard. if you move your finger from the right sector to the circle, the cursor will start moving to the left and select everything in its path. As soon as you release it, a selection pad will open for various stupid things to do.

Paste functionality

Moving your finger right->circle->lift your finger performs a paste. everything that is on the clipboard.

The project source code can be found on github at: https://github.com/flide/8VIM