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Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon


From: J. David Boyd
Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:00:47 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin)

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> On 2014-12-05, at 18:50, J. David Boyd wrote:
>
>> Don't really see the point of Emacs on a tablet.  Without a keyboard it would
>> feel useless to me, as a virtual keyboard is never going to be good enough.
>
> 1. Orgmode.
>
> 2. Never?  Seriously?  For the next 20-30 years, maybe. ;-)
>
> 3. Imagine that in Emacs 27 (for instance), you will be able to bind
> commands not only to keys and clicks etc., but also to swipes, pinches,
> gestures etc.  Then, why not?
>
>> Dave
>
> Best,


I don't do things like that now with my mouse and different browsers that
support it.  I yank my hands around too much to have them be initiating
commands.

But I do see your point.

Dave




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