From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xraysmalevich@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Portable emacs devices Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <419000ce-b080-4319-8015-39c051cb78db@v57g2000hse.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219693245 1338 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2008 19:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 25 21:41:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KXhwR-0004TS-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXhvT-0005Le-US for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v57g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.183.178.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1219689882 21105 127.0.0.1 (25 Aug 2008 18:44:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v57g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=209.183.178.159; posting-account=GWRmcQoAAAByQPzrR7mhf5cbvIm17KAJ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 PROXY1 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161627 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56970 Archived-At: On Aug 25, 12:50 pm, Richard G Riley wrote: > I wonder if anyone here can recommend a portable emacs device? My > current laptop is too big to drag around when I cycle tour. All I really > want is emacs as an authoring system but clearly wireless etc would be > beneficial if its a light, robust laptop we are talking. I would prefer > Linux as the OS underneath and have been considering the EEE but some > funny business with the batetry capacity have caused me to rethink. > > http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/uk-asus-eee-900s-come-with-stunted... > > But basically a full keyboard emacs device is all I want, preferably > with a USB port for later transfer of org files to my main development > machine. I've been happy with Emacs on an OLPC XO -- but the keyboard is tiny. You can get used to it, unless you've got Schreck fingers (plus, the greens would probably clash). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emacs