Probably better for r/showerthoughts - but is anyone using emacs without a keyboard?

I assume the core audience of emacs is devs and sysadmins (and perhaps academics with org and org roam)

But surely somebody somewhere is doing those jobs / using assistive tech (dragon etc?) to interface with emacs?

  • MitchellMarquez42@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I think it’d be really cool to implement a swipe-based touch interface onto Emacs. The recent Android port has potential as they’re fixing up touchscreen support. The real question is, how do you make such a thing intuitive and ergonomic?

  • mtlnwood@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Is there something specific that people may use emacs in that situation?

    I imagine it is as easy to interface with as any other piece of software that people need to use assisted. If your question is could it be better than other pieces of software I suppose it could be made to be so.

  • permetz@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    For a long while, when RMS had severe tendonitis in his hands and wrists, he had a succession of volunteers who typed for him, and he would literally say things to them like “C-f C-f C-k C-p C-a C-y” for hours on end while he worked. They were human voice recognition systems.