Long press <space> key as <tab>

[amsitlab]

Long press key as

from unexpected-keyboard.

[Julow]

The swipe gesture is intended to be very efficient. Could you try setting a shorter swipe distance in the settings ?

[Spike-from-NH]

I migrated from Hacker's Keyboard and agree that a swipe is much quicker than a long-press. @amsitlab, if the location of the swipe is inconvenient to you, the solution may be to create a custom layout. You can give TAB a dedicated key.

[amsitlab]

The swipe gesture is intended to be very efficient. Could you try setting a shorter swipe distance in the settings ?

Yes.. I tried
Still too difficult for me
Sometimes even typo when swipe from [a] to the left-up

I migrated from Hacker's Keyboard and agree that a swipe is much quicker than a long-press. @amsitlab, if the location of the swipe is inconvenient to you, the solution may be to create a custom layout. You can give TAB a dedicated key.

For me.. type [space] then [long press space as tab] is more faster rather than type [space] then pressing [other key]
If we can use [long press space as a tab] our thumb don't need to move to any key
Because autocomplete works after [space]

for Example:
ls [tab] <- for shell autocomplete directories
will be faster if you use
ls [space] [longpress space as tab]
rather than
ls [space] [other key]

[Spike-from-NH]

@amsitlab, I strongly disagree that the default layout should change to facilitate the sequences you happen to generate! Again, the way to customize Unexpected to be perfect for you is through a custom layout.

My custom layout is here:
Julow custom qwerty, Portrait.txt
The line with key0="space" defines the space bar. You should change switch—forward to tab. Then you can execute your sequence by tapping space once, then again and swipe upward.