From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:27:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fvco8z2h.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <877fy0yzss.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418218082 17187 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 13:28:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:28:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 14:27:55 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 1XyhJ3-00008q-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:27:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhJ3-0004tU-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:27:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50099) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhIm-0004sT-GQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:27:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhIg-00057h-M2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhIg-00057d-Fv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:27:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhIc-0008Mw-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:27:26 +0100 Original-Received: from 169.15.136.127 ([169.15.136.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:27:26 +0100 Original-Received: from dboyd2 by 169.15.136.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:27:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.136.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SExQJE9vnzt7PA49iNwAOyCnhAY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:101500 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > 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 A friend of mine has a Samsung brand of Android tablet. Gets about 8 hours battery life. When he connects the keyboard, it adds ~7 more hours batter life. That's the kind of keyboard I would like.