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I love my MBP, I think its the best yet. But the touch bar is pretty pointless, I would rather have just paid less money or gotten better hardware. Maybe if I

I love my MBP, I think its the best yet. But the touch bar is pretty pointless, I would rather have just paid less money or gotten better hardware. Maybe if I use an app that uses it effectively my opinion will change.

na85 9y ago
Apparently there's touch bar support in the Mac emacs branch
- jarmitage 9y ago
  Interesting! Got a link for this? I haven't been able to find anything yet. Edit: don't tell me I missed the sarcasm!
  - na85 9y ago
    It was just a tweet I saw. The port of Emacs in question is this one: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview
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synaesthesisx 9y ago
I have the 2017 touchbar rMBP as well. I've found BetterTouchTool useful for customizing it with various scripts (displaying Spotify currently playing, for instance). I guess it's not so much the touch bar itself but the lack of function keys which still throws me off. Thankfully I use an external keyboard for when I need that row...
astrodust 9y ago
I have a feeling the touch-bar is part of Apple's strategy to slowly convert keyboards into touch-screens for their desktops and notebooks. They're doing it a lot more carefully than on the phone where they could jump all-in. If they can improve the haptic feel of it by iterating on a less-critical portion of the keyboard and show people what a more adaptable layout can do, maybe they'll be able to produce a touch-screen keyboard most people want.
gumby 9y ago
> But the touch bar is pretty pointless, I would rather have just paid less money or gotten better hardware. The audience for the touch bar is people who look at their keyboard and/or take their hand off the keyboard frequently (e.g. to use a mouse). Come to think of it, the touchbar is probably best considered a mouse+menu accelerator. As for you, the touchbar is pointless for me, but that's simply because its physical affordances are completely and inherently outside my model of use. I don't want my gaze off the screen and I don't want my hands off the core keyboard. We are likely in the minority.

na85 9y ago

Apparently there's touch bar support in the Mac emacs branch

jarmitage 9y ago
Interesting! Got a link for this? I haven't been able to find anything yet. Edit: don't tell me I missed the sarcasm!
- na85 9y ago
  It was just a tweet I saw. The port of Emacs in question is this one: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview

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synaesthesisx 9y ago

I have the 2017 touchbar rMBP as well. I've found BetterTouchTool useful for customizing it with various scripts (displaying Spotify currently playing, for instance). I guess it's not so much the touch bar itself but the lack of function keys which still throws me off. Thankfully I use an external keyboard for when I need that row...

astrodust 9y ago

I have a feeling the touch-bar is part of Apple's strategy to slowly convert keyboards into touch-screens for their desktops and notebooks. They're doing it a lot more carefully than on the phone where they could jump all-in. If they can improve the haptic feel of it by iterating on a less-critical portion of the keyboard and show people what a more adaptable layout can do, maybe they'll be able to produce a touch-screen keyboard most people want.

gumby 9y ago

> But the touch bar is pretty pointless, I would rather have just paid less money or gotten better hardware. The audience for the touch bar is people who look at their keyboard and/or take their hand off the keyboard frequently (e.g. to use a mouse). Come to think of it, the touchbar is probably best considered a mouse+menu accelerator. As for you, the touchbar is pointless for me, but that's simply because its physical affordances are completely and inherently outside my model of use. I don't want my gaze off the screen and I don't want my hands off the core keyboard. We are likely in the minority.