Patent ID: 8914751

Claim:
A method comprising: outputting, by a computing device and for display at a presence-sensitive display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys and a text editor field; responsive to receiving an indication of a continuous gesture detected at the presence-sensitive display that comprises a first path in a first direction from a first key to a second key, outputting, for display at the text editor field of the presence-sensitive display and based at least in part on the continuous gesture, a first character associated with the first key and a second character associated with the second key; determining, by the computing device, that a second path of the continuous gesture from the second key towards the first key retraces at least a portion of the first path from the first key to the second key, wherein the second path is in a second direction that is substantially reverse to the first direction; and responsive to determining that the second path retraces at least the portion of the first path in the second direction that is substantially reverse to the first direction and that the continuous gesture further comprises a third path to a third key, the third key associated with a third character: removing, by the computing device and from display at the presence-sensitive display, the second character, and outputting, by the computing device and for display, the third character in a character string comprising the third character subsequent to first character and without the second character included between the first character and third character.