Re: [O] Emacs and tablet devices

[Jason F. McBrayer]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:59:18 +0200, Piter_ wrote:

> It may be not the best place to ask, but:
> How useful is emacs on tablet devices. I have been thinking about
> emacs and freerunner. But I have no clue how the keybindings work
> with it.
> So my second guess is nanonote which has a keyboard (but i would
> prefer freerunner as it has less moving parts).
> Any experiense or tips.

I don't have any experience with either of those devices, but I do
have a little emacs-on-tablet experience.

I have run Emacs in an SSH session from Android, using the ConnectBot
ssh client, and the Hacker's Keyboard input method. I'd say the user
experience is adequate but not ideal -- it depends on sticky modifier
keys rather than the usual chording. I believe that if you ran (e.g.)
a Debian chroot alongside Android, you could run a local emacs in a
local terminal or under Xvnc.

In my opinion, this will work, but it doesn't really leverage any
tablet-specific features.

Another possible device you might consider is the N850/900/950
series. I'm fairly certain there is a native emacs build for those
that requires no special jiggery-pokery.

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