From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Jaderholm" Subject: Re: Re: org-mode PDAs Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:09:09 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87ps0hio9k.fsf@myhost.localdomain> <20070917125006.GM7625@relwi.unibe.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2088852964==" Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXIDp-0001V2-5l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:09:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXIDo-0001UX-8D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:09:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXIDo-0001US-1W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:09:12 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXIDn-0004Ql-Ic for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:09:11 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so1205262nfh for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:09:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leo Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --===============2088852964== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_12429_1800319.1190041749541" ------=_Part_12429_1800319.1190041749541 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/17/07, Leo wrote: > Can someone help me understand the advantage of running Emacs in pda? > Emacs is an keyboard driven application and pda sucks at keyboard > input. How would these two things match? I don't think that most people would choose to run Emacs on a PDA (phone) if they had a desktop/laptop available. The scenario where Emacs on a phone seems attractive is when your only options are Emacs on your phone or writing on your hand. As someone who's used Emacs on a HTC Mogul though[1], I completely agree with your point. Generally PDAs/phones don't make very good Emacs devices, not so much because typing on their keyboards is slow, but because almost all physical phone keyboards (excluding external keyboards) lack Control and Meta keys. As you can imagine, Emacs without Control or Meta is not very useful or fun. Cheers, Scott Footnotes: [1] I used SSH, which had the added benefit that I didn't have to worry about syncing my org-mode files. ------=_Part_12429_1800319.1190041749541 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/17/07, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
Can someone help me understand the advantage of running Emacs in pda?
Emacs is an keyboard driven application and pda sucks at keyboard
input. How would these two things match?

I don't think that most people would choose to run Emacs on a PDA (phone) if they had a desktop/laptop available. The scenario where Emacs on a phone seems attractive is when your only options are Emacs on your phone or writing on your hand.

As someone who's used Emacs on a HTC Mogul though[1], I completely agree with your point. Generally PDAs/phones don't make very good Emacs devices, not so much because typing on their keyboards is slow, but because almost all physical phone keyboards (excluding external keyboards) lack Control and Meta keys. As you can imagine, Emacs without Control or Meta is not very useful or fun.

Cheers,
Scott

Footnotes:
[1] I used SSH, which had the added benefit that I didn't have to worry about syncing my org-mode files.
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