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I bought a Nexus 10 with the hope of using it for dev. At first, I tried just using terminal emulators. This was quickly ruled out after finding most of them
by farinasa 13y ago
I bought a Nexus 10 with the hope of using it for dev. At first, I tried just using terminal emulators. This was quickly ruled out after finding most of them had screwy key bindings when used with a keyboard.
Then I thought I would try using splashtop to remote into my home desktop. I thought this was perfect; I could use the power of my home machine and the portability of the Nexus. Worked great on my home network. After going to a conference, I found that it just could not hold the connection. I'm only using vim on a terminal. It just would not work.
Now here I am eyeing an 11 Macbook Air. Great portability and battery life, but the price is just hard to swallow.
- rwolf 13y agoI'm curious if the problem here is splashtop--does it work when you go to cafes with spotty wifi? For example, running vim from an ec2 instance might give you better connectivity.
- farinasa 13y agoI would tend to agree. The problem would then come back to the terminal emulators. I would miss out on keys like tab complete, home, end, del, and others. Not essential for vim, but definitely for CLI.
- rcarmo 13y ago2 things: - Jump Desktop works _a lot better_ than anything else in my experience (I live inside an iPad hooked up to XRDP) - Android terminal bindings are perfectly OK in https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androi..., so I'm curious as to what exactly was the problem you had (I also have an ODROID-U2 which I use as both an RDP client and an SSH/tmux client with extra smarts)