From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:00:19 +0000 Message-ID: <877fy0yzss.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87fvco8z2h.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418180460 21750 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 03:01:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, dboyd2@mmm.com To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 04:00:51 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyXWE-0007ux-Ib for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:00:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyXWE-0006si-1y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyXVs-0006sW-Dv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyXVl-0000oE-KP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:00:28 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.38]:55733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyXVl-0000o5-FN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail03.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.16]) by outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1870B988E1 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 15500 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2014 03:00:20 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.79.103.238]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 10 Dec 2014 03:00:19 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87fvco8z2h.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:20:38 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.38 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101496 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > Notice that in the traditional setting, you have the keyboard /and/ the > mouse, so if you want to use the mouse, you have to move your hands a > lot (=ineffective). On a tablet, you only have the touchscreen, so it's > much more natural to use these gestures. > > In general, tablets seem to be good when you /consume/ information, not > /produce/ it. But Emacs is useful at that, too. Many tablets these days can use external keyboards, so they can be used like laptops. These keyboards come in cases that hold the tablet. This does potentially have an advantage: you have one device that's both tablet and laptop. If you just want to read something you can leave the keyboard at home, but it's there if you want to do more. I haven't tried this setup yet, but a friend of mine uses it. BR, Robert Thorpe