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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Easy things for Android port
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:04:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkn4e1ag.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91wn5tozvc.fsf@google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2023 07:27:35 -0800")

"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

> One question re on-screen keyboard:
>
> Given Emacs' heavy usage of modifier keys, simply adding on-screen
> keyboard support may not deliver something very useful.

There is a free input method for Android which does have modifier keys.
I think it's called ``Any Soft Keyboard'' or some such.

> perhaps we should step back and ask "How Can Emacs Leverage Touch Input"
> in a broader sense, and use that as the motivation to do some real UI
> innovation

We already have touch screen support for the X builds, but the events
are not bound to anything at the moment.

Touchscreen support for Android is being worked on, but I think it will
also require a lot of Lisp for gesture recognition, et cetera.  Does
anyone want to write that?

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-12  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87mt6pfpy5.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-01-11  8:14 ` Easy things for Android port Po Lu
2023-01-11 15:27   ` T.V Raman
2023-01-12  6:04     ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-01-12 12:50       ` Jean Louis
2023-01-12 14:46       ` T.V Raman
2023-01-14  6:07         ` Emacs is not a research project Richard Stallman
2023-01-13 23:20       ` Easy things for Android port Björn Bidar
2023-01-13 23:22         ` Björn Bidar

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