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Subject: Re: right between the sound machine Date: Tue Jun 30 2020 10:58 pm
From: Nancy Backus To: Maurice Kinal

-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 24-Jun-2020 21:58 <=-

 MK> No big surprise though since I already had a bad experience with a
 MK> chromebook and it's poor excuse for a keyboard.  However I was hoping
 MK> that all of the keys on the bluetooth keyboard would have worked but
 MK> some of very important ones - Esc for example - don't work as they are
 MK> expected for vi. 

Well, that's a disappointment...

 MK> One is forced to use the onscreen control keys instead which I have
 MK> yet to figure out if they can be disabled without breaking anything

Sounds like it was just as well they weren't disabled yet, though, as
you needed to use some of them....

 MK> ... not that it really matters given it might as
 MK> well be broken given Android's lameness.  What a waste of a cpu etc.
 MK> running that poor excuse for a linux distribution.  Google should hang it's
 MK> head in shame. 

Indeed.

 NB>> Works well enough to use for messaging... ;)  Part of the
 NB>> experiment... :)

 MK> Yep.  I just need to fix a few bash scripts to make up for Google's
 MK> sad excuse for an OS.  Also I thought I might try compiling it's own uEmacs
 MK> and see if that is better than vim for this particular idea.  uEmacs can do
 MK> utf8 so it should have a future. 

That sounds like a good idea...  ;)

ttyl        neb

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