good job～

Thanks a lot!

Awesome !

Where did the "|" go ? I don't say it's mandatory but it was included in the keys for a reason : pipe in bash.

Furthermore, shouldn't it be configurable in some settings ? "No extra keys, one line, two lines... One line but these keys : 1, 2, 3..."

I don't see any configuration menu in my app, I can only long press on the screen to have a menu that has Help that is showing me the Termux wiki having a bit of tutorials like User Interface, how to use this app.

Maybe that's kind of hidden somewhere (like the Swipe from left side of screen to center menu) which by the way is not a good advantage of having hidden menus. Even the "extra keys" is hidden (long press on a button in a hidden menu ?).

On the other side, configuration is great if it's easy to find how to do it, but having good defaults is important too.

The 🔧 symbols would mean custom symbol in here, that's an idea indeed. An another idea would be to insert characters via a configuration menu somewhere, insert of replacing it.

But what were you talking about with your comment What about the configuration menu ?

But if we were to talk about your 10×2 layout, I'd prefer the arrow keys being in a natural position (like a keyboard) as in the screenshot of @xqdoo00o, same for Home/End and PageUp/Down.

@robertvandeneynde @SDRausty currently, the longpress action means writing key on session continuously except for CTRL and ALT.
May the action just for Arrow keys? that's more common usage.
Then the other button could a longpress popup or other longpress actions.

Clearly long press giving key repeat is a great feature (especially for arrow keys), I didn't know this feature ! However, I just tested it aaand it's not working.

I was not not talking about any long press on a key, what are you talking about ?

@robertvandeneynde ok, I add some popups. Currently, for "-" it's "|", for "/" it's "\".

People using "|" a lot might complain. What about adding some settings ?

One could choose between :

• No extra keys
• One line of extra keys : Esc Ctrl Alt Tab - / |
• Two lines : your proposal
• Custom

If implementing a settings menu is a big deal, the current way of doing it (long press on the Keyboard button in the left hidden menu) could cycle through the 3 first settings.

For me, your popup that's good enough... If I'm aware I can long press your keys to get new characters (which is not obvious, could be written in the wiki).

Lastly, what about this comment ?

@robertvandeneynde The code of '― -' issue you said is here origin code. It has been removed in this PR.

and No need for longPress to input '|'.
just tap '-' then slip up, no needs to stay your finger on screen, the '|' would be written.

futher more, my IME(Google Pinyin) include many slip down popup as you can see on the screenshot. The PR's popup action is just like it. the IME is also enough for me.

Good, slipup is better than long press indeed. For the '― -' issue, I asked why did you remove '―', it was more visible than '-' but that's just cosmetics, not so important :)

@robertvandeneynde I know your means. and a commit comes.

How could this PR be accepted by the authors ? Or a least discuessed ? It seems like the repo didn't have any commit sinice 1 month but is a long requested feature in the issues @fornwall maybe ? :) I intend to use termux as a ipython for my classes at the university if the app suits my need ? :)

How to enable these keys?

@deathlive https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Touch_Keyboard#Extra_Keys_Row

@Neo-Oli Volume Up+Q includes this

But how then to include this?

@deathlive This Pull request hasn't been merged yet, so it isn't available.

@deathlive Here is the apk I built ago.
try wget https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXCsQ89u6M9DPXvQHVGoS4BXnrkyZU8PWUxnPXf1jBswQ -O release.apk

@xqdoo00o Awesome work and sorry for the delay! This will be available in the next update (v0.62) shortly!

@xqdoo00o thanks! I was expecting this for a long time

@xqdoo00o Thank you! Did a double take today to make sure I was in the right app. I'd been unwittingly using the new keys for ten minutes. Loving them.

How will I use vi without insert? :/

How will I use vi without insert? :/

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@Neo-Oli Volume Up+Q includes this

But how then to include this?

can we switch between 1-row, 2-row and default extra-key without delete termux.properties ?

That's a feature we're working on soon :)

There will be a button "switch layout" you can personize, so that you can switch layouts for example between "terminal one line", useful for vim, or python focus :)

Need this layout on Android Lollipop 5.1.1, current version has only one row.

@Harshiv-Patel, the default changed. See https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Touch_Keyboard#Extra_Keys_Row for directions to customize it.