Hi, On Wednesday 20 of April 2011 04:07:33 Maurício CA wrote: > I like the way acme works. And these days it's common that we take > small machines everywhere, like a netbook I like to work with at the > library or cafe tables. > > Is anyone working on something that could give the same kind of user > experience that we have with acme, but designed to be used with those > small machines we use on top of things where there's usually no space > for a mouse? Maybe an acme fork that uses a touchscreen instead of > the mouse?
i've been using acme on a laptop with just the touchpad for some time. chording is a bit slow, but doable -- if you can configure advanced functions of the touchpad. i did on linux+X11 (plan9port). the touchpad was providing one-, two- and three-finger `tap' detection, which i mapped to button 1, 2 and 3 (perhaps in a different order, can't remember). also, it provided 1.5-click functionality, where you touch it, raise the finger and then touch-and-hold(and possibly drag). that pretty much replaced the left mouse button to me for both clicking and click-and-hold for chording. i've re-mapped the physical buttons below the touchpad to buttons 2 and 3, and chording was possible. -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] ``In other news, STFU and hack.'' mahmud, in response to Erann Gat's ``How I lost my faith in Lisp'' http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2308816
