Last Updated on June 29, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
The Pinephone ca do anyting? Why do Pinephone users then use Emac & Vim on the Pinephone?
Pinephone user TRS-80 uses Emacs:
«When combined with … Emacs, I find using the PinePhone to edit text a treat, actually. «
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18797&highlight=emacs
But not Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org because he watched the following video:
Pinephone user Zebulon Walton uses Vim:
«If I have to edit files on the Pinephone I ssh into it and use vi/vim»
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18489&pid=122590#pid122590
Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org asks: Is Vim easier to use than Emacs?
Vim (/vɪm/; vi improved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program. It is an improved clone of Bill Joy’s vi. Vim’s author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga and released a version to the public in 1991:
Vim’s author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga and released a version to the public in 1991:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)
There are office applications for the Pinephone such as LibreOffice, Abiword, Gnumeric and Word 97 available which are much easiers to use than Emacs and Vim:
But these require a good keyboard such as the Pinephone keyboard
which unfortunately has been pulled from the market by Pine64.