Touch gestures for text-entry operations

A computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors of a computing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, using a presence-sensitive display coupled to the computing device, a first user input comprising a first drawing gesture associated with a first area for user input defined on the presence-sensitive display, wherein the first user input specifies one or more characters to be displayed at the presence-sensitive display, and wherein the first drawing gesture includes a drawn representation of the one or more characters;
• receiving, using the presence-sensitive display, second user input comprising a second drawing gesture, wherein the second drawing gesture spans only the first area and a second area for user input defined at the presence-sensitive display, and wherein the second user input specifies a first editing operation associated with the one or more characters;
• applying, by the computing device, the first editing operation to the one or more characters in response to receiving the second user input;
• receiving, using the presence-sensitive display, third user input comprising a third drawing gesture, wherein the third drawing gesture spans the first area, the second area, and a third area for user input defined at the presence-sensitive display, and wherein the third user input specifies a second editing operation associated with the one or more characters;
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• applying, by the computing device, the second editing operation to the one or more characters in response to receiving the third user input.

A computing device, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a presence-sensitive display;
• wherein the presence-sensitive display is configured to receive first user input comprising a first drawing gesture associated with a first area for user input defined at the presence-sensitive display, wherein the first user input specifies one or more characters to be displayed at the presence-sensitive display, wherein the first drawing gesture includes a drawn representation of the one or more characters,
• wherein the presence-sensitive display is further configured to receive second user input comprising a second drawing gesture, wherein the second drawing gesture spans only the first area and a second area for user input defined at the presence-sensitive display, wherein the second user input specifies a first editing operation associated with the one or more characters, and
• wherein the presence-sensitive display is further configured to receive third user input comprising a third drawing gesture, wherein the third drawing gesture spans the first area, the second area, and a third area for user input defined at the presence-sensitive display, and wherein the third user input specifies a second editing operation associated with the one or more characters;
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• an operations module operable by the one or more processors, wherein the operations module is configured to apply the first editing operation to the one or more characters in response to receiving the second user input, and wherein the operations module is further configured to apply the second editing operation to the one or more characters in response to receiving the third user input.