Hackerskeyboard: Suggestion about `backspace` location on the layout

[longtth]

As image below, could we have an option to set the backspace button to the normal spot, because while the <>? buttons is helpful, but I (and I think many other guys) may wrong-typo on it many times.

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[TPS]

I've never seen a _physical_ keyboard in the US w/ a backspace there. Where're such normal?

[longtth]

Gboard, GO keyboard, Swiftkey, Cheetah keyboard and many other top keyboard
use that style, you could have a look on google play to verify that 😆

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 23:29 TPS [e-mail] wrote:

I've never seen a keyboard in the US w/ a backspace there. Where're such
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[TPS]

OIC! :blush: However, 1 of the points of HK is that it's supposed to be as similar as possible to a physical PC keyboard, w/ enhancements from that framework.

[kneh]

I think hackers keyboard is great, however I do have a big problem with it when it is in portrait mode and being used from chat apps (eg: Whatsapp). In those cases the the touch area for the backspace key and the send button end up being separated by only a few pixels. So when my text needs a correction, or when I want to remove the entire text it sometimes happens that I inadvertently touch the send button, so that the incorrect text is send. Perhaps the other keyboard layouts were specifically created to avoid this problem?

Example (see red ellipse):

Suggestion: does hackerskeyboard know the name of the app it's called from? Would it be possible to as an option to allow the user to select apps for which hackerskeyboard uses an alternate "Send Button Save" layout (with the backspace separated from the send) button (perhaps by calling the stock keyboard app. instead)?