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greboide / emacs-gestures
emacs-gestures
A library of gesture commands for GNU Emacs' strokes-mode.
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A library of gesture commands for GNU Emacs' strokes-mode.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 2011 | 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Nov 2011 | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2011 | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2012 | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2012 | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2012 | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2012 | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2012 | 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2012 | 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2012 | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2012 | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2012 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2012 | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2012 | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesThere were some projects (also, if I recall correctly some ubuntu-new-ui projects for tablets/gestures). btw
https://github.com/greboide/emacs-gestures
In GNU Emacs ported to AndroidEmacs already supports touch gestures: https://github.com/greboide/emacs-gestures. As ever, we have it all ;)
While it's actually completely different from this, the way it worked on Emacs was neat too. Unfortunately, the video of somebody demonstrating the gestures seems to have been removed.
The one neat trick from there I remember is that you could touch a list function name, draw a question mark and get the documentation of the selected function. When I get a tablet (one of these days...) I'll have to try it out.
In Codify: native coding environment for iPadThis is basically exactly what Emacs does--every single GUI action, be it a keyboard shortcut, a menu item, a mouse click or even a touch gesture[1] maps directly and very unsubtly to an elisp function. This means you can go from just using Emacs like a normal text editor do doing really complicated things with elisp in a relatively straightforward way.
[1]: https://github.com/greboide/emacs-gestures
Coincidentally, I don't see how Emacs is a CLI program, even if it does have a text-only mode: the text-only mode just draws the GUI elements with text the way other programs draw them with pixels. Of course, it's a tool heavily optimized for power users, but that's a different story.
In GUI vs CLI: Operation vs Expression