New Open Hardware company

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at qi-hardware.com
Tue Jul 21 13:55:52 CEST 2009


Werner,
you can mark my words - I am becoming a real mutt fan now.
Unless someone else is faster, I will port mutt over to the NanoNote and
use it as my offline email device :-)
Next time I come visit you in Buenos Aires this will work!
Wolfgang

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:27:02AM -0300, Werner Almesberger 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
> 
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