Re: emacs on the N800

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:23:23AM -0800, Daniel M German wrote:
> 
>  >> Unless Adam tells me that the physical keyboard is not as useful as he
>  >> first thought (maybe for the reasons I mention here), I'll go for N810.
> 
>  Adam> Entering text by tapping can be very frustrating in certain
>  Adam> situations, so I suspect I'd miss having the physical keyboard.  The
>  Adam> selection of the small tap keyboard for stylus and the large finger
>  Adam> keyboard seems to be quite hard to control - sometimes you get one,
> 
> Just press the key in the middle of the 4 arrow keys (I think it is
> called the home key). When you are in a place where the virtual
> keyboard can be used, this will display the full virtual
> keyboard.

On the N810, you have to slide the physical keyboard out to get access
to the d-pad and the button in the middle, and if you've done that,
you might as well use the physical keyboard :-/

>  Adam> sometimes the other.  In normal text fields it's not too bad, but in
>  Adam> the xterm app it's almost impossible to get a finger keyboard.
> 
> how are you trying to get it?

According to the docs, it should just require a finger press (as
opposed to a stylus press) on a text input field, although in practice
it seems that a double tap works better.  It works fairly reliably for
text input fields, but with the xterm there is no text input field,
and any tap on the terminal will start selecting text instead.