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Re: moving x-select*
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Chad Brown |
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Re: moving x-select* |
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:28:50 -0700 |
On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Jason Rumney wrote:
> Chad Brown <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I hate to be a bikeshedding nay-sayer, but there are a fair number of new
>> touch-based UIs support selections without necessarily supporting pointing
>> mouse cursor-like concepts (Android being an obvious potential candidate).
>
> A touchscreen is a pointing device - that is why I did not say mouse.
Not in the sense that Emacs understands `pointing device'. Android
*has* pointing device support, but the smartphone/tablet form factors
won't have one 99.9% of the time (for most of them, you'd have to add
the driver yourself). This already came up in the maemo port, and I
really expect (hope) to see it again when the android tablets are
actually commonly available.
It's possible that I'm misunderstanding the original criteria, and
you're saying something more like ``since /some/ android devices
support a pointing device, all android ports will load the
pointing-device code even though many particular devices don't have
any support for it''. If that case is fine in general, then what I'm
saying doesn't matter; I thought the original point was just that
having selection support depend on mouse support might be wrong.
This situation is on my mind lately, because I'm really hoping for a
decent android-based tablet that can usefully support emacs. My
apologies if my enthusiasm has caused trouble.
*Chad
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc., (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc., Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/25
- moving x-select* [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc.], Glenn Morris, 2010/10/27
- Re: moving x-select* [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc.], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/28
- Re: moving x-select* [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc.], Jason Rumney, 2010/10/28
- Re: moving x-select* [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc.], Chad Brown, 2010/10/28
- Re: moving x-select*, Jason Rumney, 2010/10/28
- Re: moving x-select*,
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