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I wonder how convenient it would be to run i3 with a browser and an emacs window or terminal on the thing. That would cover a lot of possible use cases for me.
by sbmassey 9y ago
I wonder how convenient it would be to run i3 with a browser and an emacs window or terminal on the thing. That would cover a lot of possible use cases for me.
- forapurpose 9y agoIs Emacs efficient with 2-finger typing? With the handheld form factor revolution, we need text editors that use that interface as efficiently as Emacs and Vim use the full keyboard interface.
- michaelmrose 9y agoI would argue that the keyboard is already the optimal device to both input and manipulate text to the point where touch adds little.
- forapurpose 9y agoI wasn't clear: I meant that Emacs and Vim are optimized for 10-finger typing on full-sized keyboards. We need something for 2-finger keyboards typical on phones, or more broadly something optimized for phone input (maybe including gestures, for example).
- michaelmrose 9y ago2 fingers is so comparatively terrible that there is nothing on earth you could do to make it better than connecting a keyboard.
- stewbrew 9y agoVIM actually works pretty well on a phone as long as you find a way to input Ctrl and ESC.
- sbmassey 9y agoMaybe with evil-mode and some judicious key remapping one could get by.