# 2 questions: Moving multiple blocks in editor and micro:bit simulator keyboard control

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**Created:** [October 28, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/2-questions-moving-multiple-blocks-in-editor-and-micro-bit-simulator-keyboard-control/31389 "2024-10-28T21:17:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/2-questions-moving-multiple-blocks-in-editor-and-micro-bit-simulator-keyboard-control/31389/5 "2024-10-29T14:43:57Z")

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Your question triggered a flash of memory from a long time ago, @emory55.

Might you mean something like this?:

> <https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-microbit/issues/3857>
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> Feedback from Mr. Coxall - 
> The requirement that I have is to be able to have "…free flow" input of numbers and letters like I have in MakeCode Arcade but in MakeCode for Micro:Bit. 
> I know I can do it with the console in the Python IDE, but I want to do it with a Micro:Bit using a block language.
> Using the Python IDE for the Micro:Bit I can make a program like:
> \<img width="470" alt="Python1" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22108954/106076421-5de3d180-60c4-11eb-9a08-28a2e146c19a.png"\>
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> And then use the console to interact with it like:
> \<img width="448" alt="Python2" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22108954/106076427-60dec200-60c4-11eb-8277-0080cdf2bb9b.png"\>
> 
> Similarly, when I use MakeCode Arcade, I can write a program like:
> \<img width="887" alt="Arcade" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22108954/106076433-64724900-60c4-11eb-84a1-64cdbcf3148c.png"\>
> 
> The Console window for MakeCode micro:bit doesn't allow user input:
> !\[MicrobitConsole\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22108954/106076520-8cfa4300-60c4-11eb-933c-a63966f8b788.png)

(A very good idea for a useful functionality IMO, and some (presumably) related mentions other places, too:  
[https://forum.makecode.com/t/microbit-extension-that-adds-to-the-simulator-and-debugger/19465/5](https://forum.makecode.com/t/microbit-extension-that-adds-to-the-simulator-and-debugger/19465/5)  
[https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-microbit/issues/5110](https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-microbit/issues/5110))

Maybe there are some synergies for the micro:bit and the sought after “input() from console” with the anticipated [keyboard input of text](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-mouse-input-extension/5988/28), too?

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