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A comment on Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch.

Re:Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch by whitten on Friday September 13, 2024 @12:10PM (#41532542)
I probably missed it, but since the switch doesn’t have a keyboard how do you handle text input ?
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Re:Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch by jsheard on Friday September 13, 2024 @12:19PM (#41532622)
The Switch can support a USB keyboard, which would be the nice way to do it. There's already a fair number of officially published games with keyboard and/or mouse support, including a couple of programming ones. It has an on-screen keyboard too of course but you wouldn't want to rely on that more than absolutely necessary.
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Re:Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch by Arelius on Friday September 13, 2024 @12:33PM (#41532781)
Over the network most likely?
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Re:Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch by Shinmera on Friday September 13, 2024 @12:44PM (#41532885)
It does have a HID keyboard API, but typically you're expected to present an on-screen keyboard.
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