As someone who loved his Nokia N900 with Emacs running on it, a physical keyboard was vital to being able to have that efficient and powerful workflow. Emacs’ k

As someone who loved his Nokia N900 with Emacs running on it, a physical keyboard was vital to being able to have that efficient and powerful workflow. Emacs’ keybindings are already part of my muscle memory from my desktop computer, and it was nice to be able to draw on that on my phone, without having to learn a whole new touch-based workflow. > Touch keyboards can also have their layouts changed. So could the N900’s physical keyboard. I work in multiple languages and need ready access to a lot of diacritics, and I was able to create my own perfect keyboard layout since the N900 ran X and so could handle an ordinary Xmodmap file. People often claim that touch keyboards are fine and just as efficient, if not more so. But the decline of longform text on the internet seems to coincide with the arrival of smartphones with touch keyboards as most people’s default computing device.