Fire HD8 Plus) is choking badly on the code (JAVA?). It didn't do so badly on DU2.
Edit to add: "I have to keep scrolling down to see the line I'm currently typing, and often as soon as I start typing again, the line I'm typing disappears from view again."
YES!

Samsung Galaxy, to be exact. (I just added that to the op.)

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I can't edit my original posts in DU4. There is no edit button on my OPs. I also cannot see the line I am typing as I type.

I no longer get predictive text at all, which used to save me a lot of time, and previously used phrasing no longer shows up as predictive text, so frequently used comments (like "K&R & thanks" ) have to be typed out. Since I can't touch type, that is awkward.

DU used to automatically capitalize "I" when it was meant as a pronoun, and used to add the apostrophe in contractions. Those conveniences are gone now.

Now I have to use extra clicks to find what used to be readily visible on DU3.

I have other issues with DU4 as well, but not being able to see the line I am typing makes typing difficult for me, so I don't want to expand this post.

I don't like DU4. I mostly use Skinner mode now, but the problems I have mentioned are still there in Skinner mode.

1. Sometimes the text I've typed in the "Title" box disappears before I finish the body of the post,. I know I'm not imagining this, because it's my habit to always fill in the title first.

Sometimes I notice this when I try to preview a post and the system gives me a stern message saying the title has to be filled in. I often write rather long posts, and I tend to preview repeatedly to cut down on having to edit after I've posted. I have had the title of a post disappear multiple times when repeatedly previewing, and I have to keep retyping it.

2. Sometimes, while typing a post, the cursor will *poof* disappear from the text box. This is also more apt to happen with long posts. If I need to go back to insert a word or a character in a previous line, I have to try and tap the screen in the right place, but I can't tell for sure intil I type a character. (This is a lot harder on a touch screen than it would be with a mouse.)

These last 2 glitches don't affect me nearly as much as the one I described in the op, but they are annoying. I am a big fan of DU4 overall, and I really hope these things can be fixed so that I can post the way I used to in DU3, with fewer missteps. Thanks for DU4 and thanks for looking into these glitches!

It's a great feature and I always participate when asked.

Unfortunately, the offending text is supposed to be highlighted in RED, and I'm not seeing any red text.

So I had to back out of giving a response - so sorry.

way I can indicate that I am quoting at length from another text is with highlighting, and that looks awful.

Example:

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Like this:

Someone had this same problem with the keyboard covering up the input box during the beta test -- I was able to fix it at the time, although I seem to recall that they were using a phone instead of a tablet. The good news is that since I already fixed this on phones, I should also be able to fix it for tablet (I just need to go find what it was that I did to fix it the first time around).

And by the way, this was a really excellent bug report -- lots of detail, thanks!