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Re: Emacs touch interface
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs touch interface |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:28:28 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.1 |
On 2016-02-05, at 06:34, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> I spent a day googling and scratching my head, but it seems like the
> support for gestures in Linux is pretty weak. For instance, by default
> the Unity interface in Ubuntu doesn't let through any gestures to the
> applications, and the ones it does recognise (four-fingered ones) can't
> be remapped.
>
> You have to recompile Unity to do anything with the events, and in
> addition you have to run a separate daemon to translate events.
>
> So I'm not going to proceed any further down that lane for Emacs.
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something basic here, this is all pretty
> immature (on GNU systems, at least).
That's a pity. I'd *love* to be able to use Org proper on, say, an
Android tablet, and e.g. swipe to change the state of TODOs.
> But here's what I ended up with as a touch interface for my Emacs-based
> music player:
>
> http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/02/05/touchy-emacs/
Nice!
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University