Re: Fwd: The $20 Android tablet

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:14 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 10:14 am, dmccunney wrote:
>
>> What I have installed for further investigation now are the 920 editor
>> and the Jota editor.  Both are open source products.
>
> I have Jota + editor, don't believe I ever used it, must've got it 'just
> in case'

I got it to see how it's designed and what it does. I collect text
editors, and I'm principal maintainer at a wiki devoted to them:
http://texteditors.org

(I have to go through and add entries to the Android Editor Family on
the wiki.  There are a lot available that don't have entries.)

> Installed VimTouch, fwiw, it's from the dev who did 'Keep In Pocket', an
> app that I plan on using - it allows seamless net connection from [larger
> screen] device via mobile phone with data service - not unlike a Palm
> tethered to a cell phone. I only have data service on mobile, not on
> tablet, hence my desire to use the phone data service whilst maximizing
> battery life.

So the tablet uses the phone as a modem?

One of the things I'd be interested in is something I haven't seen yet
- a cell phone and tablet from the same manufacturer designed to work
together.  Each can be used separately, but if, for example, you want
to connect on the tablet but aren't near a wifi hotspot, it can be
tethered to and connect out through the phone.

I have broadband via my cable provider, and their feed connects to my
wireless router, so my tablet has connectivity at home.

> as for VIM, I was given a brief intro by my friend who setup my dns (long
> time ago), and, all I know is 'Esc : w' which gets me by

Vim's basic command set is that of vi.  Esc gets you out of input mode
and into command mode, and :w attempts to write out the file you are
editing.  :wq writes and quits the editor, as does ZZ.

Vi was a rude shock coming from full screen editors on the PC, but
once I understood the design I grew to like it.  The thing to remember
about vi is that when Bill Joy first wrote it as a grad student at UC
Berkeley, his connection from his dorm room to the Unix server he was
working on was a 300 baud dial up modem.  He spent a lot of time on
optimizing screen writes to send the minimum data required to update
the screen, and the terse command set was designed to accomplish as
much work with as few keystrokes as possible.

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