From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Emacs on Android, someone please give this developer some help Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:17:02 -0700 Message-ID: <46E05C72B943433F8D5EC0C3AF59C320@us.oracle.com> References: <874noc5evq.fsf@hfph.mwn.de> <5024826E.7010303@arlsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344604658 12838 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2012 13:17:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'MBR'" , "'Andreas Goesele'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 15:17:37 2012 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 1Szp5k-0007lP-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:17:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47096 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Szp5j-00063k-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Szp5b-00063A-3i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Szp5V-0002fC-6O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:24150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Szp5V-0002f6-0Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:17:13 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q7ADH5ds002266 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:17:06 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q7ADH5om014988 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:17:05 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt111.oracle.com (abhmt111.oracle.com [141.146.116.63]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q7ADH4TC018640; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:17:04 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.221.31) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:17:04 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <5024826E.7010303@arlsoft.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac12qcYs/sbQd90LTVuZzEPmhIAXrAAUBFIA X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 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:86286 Archived-At: > Much though I'd like to be able to run Emacs on my Android phone, > I'm having difficulty imagining how input could possibly work. > Emacs is heavily dependent on "chord" keystrokes. It's hard > enough to type anything at all on the standard Android virtual > keyboard, and that doesn't have ALT, CTRL, or SHIFT modifier keys. > Would an Android Emacs include its own virtual keyboard? > And even if it did, how do you type a chord on a touchscreen with > keys that small? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Key_Completion#ThreeKeyEmacs