Glad you noticed that Werner. When we went over the keyboard vi was on my mind. generally I tried to think of the things I could do with the device rather than the things one could not obviously do.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Werner Almesberger <wer...@openmoko.org>wrote: > Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > most FOSS. Unless we restrict the Non-G-UI to commandline and > > ncurses. > > I noticed that is has an escape key. So vi will be fine. What else > could one possibly wish for, except that more GUI designers would > draw their inspiration from the grace and style of vi ? :-) > > Historical note: once I had Linux run on my Psion S5 and took it to > a conference. The UI consisted of eight virtual consoles with a > shell each, with whatever I chose to run there - typically a vi, so > I could switch from taking notes on various topics just by changing > consoles. Despite the device's many shortcomings, the system felt > amazingly productive, almost on par with the HP-100LX. > > - Werner > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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