Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5

Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 by forapurpose on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:00AM (#15822239)

Is Emacs efficient with 2-finger typing?

With the handheld form factor revolution, we need text editors that use that interface as efficiently as Emacs and Vim use the full keyboard interface.

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Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 by michaelmrose on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:59AM (#15822430)

I would argue that the keyboard is already the optimal device to both input and manipulate text to the point where touch adds little.

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Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 by forapurpose on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:14AM (#15822471)

I wasn't clear: I meant that Emacs and Vim are optimized for 10-finger typing on full-sized keyboards. We need something for 2-finger keyboards typical on phones, or more broadly something optimized for phone input (maybe including gestures, for example).

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Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 by michaelmrose on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:46PM (#15825652)

2 fingers is so comparatively terrible that there is nothing on earth you could do to make it better than connecting a keyboard.

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Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 by stewbrew on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:56AM (#15822594)

VIM actually works pretty well on a phone as long as you find a way to input Ctrl and ESC.

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Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 by sbmassey on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:12AM (#15822804)

Maybe with evil-mode and some judicious key remapping one could get by.

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