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OpenBoard does allow to use the spacebar to position the cursor. Holding it down and den swipe left or right to move the cursor.
Hacker's Keyboard has arrow keys, shift, ctrl, alt, and escape. This isn't a limitation of phone keyboards in general, just the poor design choices of most stock keyboards.
Man now I want those too. Can you call up the keyboard manually to use them outside of text entry?
Hacker's Keyboard has an option for a persistent notification that can be used to bring up the keyboard whenever you want. On mobile Linux, at least on Phosh (which is the environment that squeekboard is a part of) there is a button on the bottom bar that pulls up the keyboard whenever you want it.
Neat! Thanks