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Qaanol

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Jun 21, 2010
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Does there exist a tweak that allows keyboard shortcuts to consist entirely of spaces?

When I try to make a keyboard shortcut that outputs the tab symbol, iOS refuses to save it, giving a message, “The phrase cannot be all spaces.”

Now, it’s not a huge deal, because I just made the shortcut output a tab followed by a period, so I can type in “tabsymbol” to get them, then delete the period. I did the same thing for my shortcut “nobreakspace”, which makes a nonbreaking space and a period.

However, I’d prefer not to have to include the extra symbol in the shortcut. So, does anyone know of a tweak that allows keyboard shortcut phrases to be all spaces?

(I made a whole bunch of shortcuts like that, so if I type in “emdash” I get an em dash, if I type “squareroot” I get a radical, and so forth. It’s only the nonbreaking space and the tab that cannot be saved properly.)

If no such tweak exists I might try making it myself. I’m reasonably competent at programming, but I’ve never written a jailbreak tweak to modify an existing app (Settings in this case) before. Do you know of any good resources for learning how to do that on iOS?
 
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