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   Nancy Backus to Maurice Kinal   
   Re: right between the sound machine   
   30 Jun 20 22:58:46   
   
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   -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 24-Jun-2020 21:58 <=-   
      
    MK> No big surprise though since I already had a bad experience with a   
    MK> chromebook and it's poor excuse for a keyboard.  However I was hoping   
    MK> that all of the keys on the bluetooth keyboard would have worked but   
    MK> some of very important ones - Esc for example - don't work as they are   
    MK> expected for vi.    
      
   Well, that's a disappointment...   
      
    MK> One is forced to use the onscreen control keys instead which I have   
    MK> yet to figure out if they can be disabled without breaking anything   
      
   Sounds like it was just as well they weren't disabled yet, though, as   
   you needed to use some of them....   
      
    MK> ... not that it really matters given it might as   
    MK> well be broken given Android's lameness.  What a waste of a cpu etc.   
    MK> running that poor excuse for a linux distribution.  Google should hang   
    MK> it's head in shame.    
      
   Indeed.   
      
    NB>> Works well enough to use for messaging... ;)  Part of the   
    NB>> experiment... :)   
      
    MK> Yep.  I just need to fix a few bash scripts to make up for Google's   
    MK> sad excuse for an OS.  Also I thought I might try compiling it's own   
    MK> uEmacs and see if that is better than vim for this particular idea.    
    MK> uEmacs can do utf8 so it should have a future.    
      
   That sounds like a good idea...  ;)   
      
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