1. A method of enabling input on a handheld electronic device that comprises an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of language objects, the input apparatus comprising a plurality of input members including a multiple-axis input device, at least some of the input members each having a plurality of characters assigned thereto, the handheld electronic device further having operable thereon a disambiguation routine that is structured to disambiguate ambiguous text input, the method comprising: outputting a number of language objects on the display; detecting an input from the multiple-axis input device as a navigational input among the language objects on the display; detecting an actuation of one of the input members having a plurality of characters assigned thereto as an editing input with respect to one of the language objects comprising a number of characters; subjecting the one of the language objects plus the editing input to the disambiguation routine; and outputting as a default disambiguation of the one of the language objects plus the editing input the number of characters plus a character assigned to the one of the input members.