Re: Emacs touch interface

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> On 2016-02-05, at 06:34, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
>> I spent a day googling and scratching my head, but it seems like the
>> support for gestures in Linux is pretty weak.  For instance, by default
>> the Unity interface in Ubuntu doesn't let through any gestures to the
>> applications, and the ones it does recognise (four-fingered ones) can't
>> be remapped.
>>
>> You have to recompile Unity to do anything with the events, and in
>> addition you have to run a separate daemon to translate events.
>>
>> So I'm not going to proceed any further down that lane for Emacs.
>> Unless I'm misunderstanding something basic here, this is all pretty
>> immature (on GNU systems, at least).
>
> That's a pity.  I'd *love* to be able to use Org proper on, say, an
> Android tablet, and e.g. swipe to change the state of TODOs.

Maybe this is a handy and pragmatic solution (developed by PicoLisp
Guru Alexander Burger, and in productive use on a Nexus tablet as far
as I know):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_01ha1uS6Y13
,----
| Short demo of the Penti keyboard on Android. Allows chorded input of
| all ASCII - letters, digits, punctuation and control - and
| navigation keys - arrows, page up/down, home, end, function keys
| etc. -, with the five fingers of your right or left hand.
| 
| Available currently for Android version 5.0, and as a Linux kernel

Especially suited for use with Vim or Emacs evil-mode I would say (the
less keystrokes, the better).

Here is an exhaustive list of all key chords, somewhere I've seen a kind
of tutorial too - when there is demand, I search for it:

Akkord DIGIT PUNCT
---------------------------------------------------
01 - ---# N )
02 - --#- I 3 !
03 - --## G 9 =
04 - -#-- E 2 [
05 - -#-# RESET
06 - -##- O 8 |
07 - -### M - >
08 - #--- S 1 *
09 - #--# J : ;
0A - #-#- C , ]
0B - #-## V (
0C - ##-- L 7 _
0D - ##-# RESET
0E - ###- U 0 &
0F - #### K DEL @
10 # ---- SPACE SPACE SPACE
11 # ---# D . /
12 # --#- A 6 `
13 # --## Y ^
14 # -#-- R 5 $
15 # -#-# RESET
16 # -##- B {
17 # -### T ~ %
18 # #--- F 4 ?
19 # #--# H #
1A # #-#- Q '
1B # #-## X \
1C # ##-- Z "
1D # ##-# RESET
1E # ###- P + }
1F # #### W <

Arpeggio
---------------------------------------------------
18 # #--- CNTRL 0C - ##-- BS
14 # -#-- SHIFT 0A - #-#- RET
12 # --#- DIGIT 09 - #--# TAB
11 # ---# PUNCT 06 - -##- ESC

Mnemo
--------------------------------------------------------------------
- #--- S # -#-- R # #--- F # ##-- Z # ###- P
- -#-- E # --#- A - ##-- L - ###- U - #### K
- --#- I # ---# D - -##- O - -### M # #### W
- ---# N - --## G

# -##- B - #-#- C # #-#- Q
# --## Y - #--# J # #--# H
# -### T - #-## V # #-## X

- #--- 1 # #--- 4 - ##-- 7 - ###- 0
- -#-- 2 # -#-- 5 - -##- 8
- --#- 3 # --#- 6 - --## 9

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten