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From: "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs on Android, someone please give this developer some help
Date: 12 Aug 2012 13:25:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lihkfj3k.fsf@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5024826E.7010303@arlsoft.com> (mbr@arlsoft.com's message of "Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:39:26 -0400")

MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com> writes:

> 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?

You can install the "Hacker's Keyboard" which has all Modifier Keys
easily available. I use it on my Xoom when I ssh into an Emacs session
on a remote machine. This keyboard is available in the "Android
Playstore" and gives a genuine Emacs feeling.

Sven



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-12 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <a8f8frFiinU1@mid.individual.net>
     [not found] ` <874noc5evq.fsf@hfph.mwn.de>
2012-08-09 22:15   ` Emacs on Android, someone please give this developer some help General Schvantzkoph
2012-08-10  3:39   ` MBR
2012-08-10 12:02     ` Rémi Letot
2012-08-10 13:17     ` Drew Adams
2012-08-12 11:25     ` Sven Bretfeld [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6668.1344569977.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]     ` <87zk6250zv.fsf@hfph.mwn.de>
2012-08-10 13:57       ` Charles Philip Chan

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