Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen • Hacker News Board

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by stavros » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:13 AM UTC

konradkpl wrote: post #8

ksynwa wrote: post #2

I'm getting a little bit of anxiety just reading about this. I hate typing on phone especially if the text haa symbols mixed in. I mistype a lot more often on phone and often somehow skip entire words. (Don't know what the cause of this is.) I am guessing they using some specialised keyboard that makes it easier to type symbols etc.

He posted a recording in which you can see how he works https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom...

Why is there no keyboard on the screen there?

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by daft_pink » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:18 AM UTC

Am I the only one who clicked through just to find out how to get neovim working on my iPhone? My iPhone doesn’t do that :(

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by karel-3d » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:19 AM UTC

His parents still want to send him to medical school, because he's Asian, so he needs to be a doctor. (I'm directly quoting him!)

That's ... something.

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by guappa » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:24 AM UTC

burgerrito wrote: post #12

matwood wrote: post #6

The Painted Man is a novel that was mostly written on the author's Blackberry while riding the train to work. https://www.geeknative.com/6955/the-painted-man-written-on-a...

I had a Nokia qwerty phone, and, man, it was such a superior way to type portably. I wish they still sell those kinds of phone... Like computer keyboards, it also had a ctrl key. That means that I can ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy paste.

Eh I wrote a short story on my qwerty nokia!

Also, python programs :D

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by GuB-42 » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:26 AM UTC

pandemic_region wrote: post #26

Back in the 90's, I created something like a mortgage calculator on my HP48gx. It was about 1500 "lines" (a line being maybe at most 30 chars) , all keyed in using only the calculator. The mind is capable of many things.

The HP48 has a pretty good keyboard. I remember someone who typed as fast as most people would do on a full keyboard, using some weird kind of touch typing with the hands vertically positioned on both sides of the calculator.

The problem is more about the software. The HP48 is pretty slow, and has a tendency to lose your data a bit too easily. There are some editors written in assembly that are good enough though, and since you had a GX, you could use memory card backups.

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by konradkpl » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:27 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #31

konradkpl wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He posted a recording in which you can see how he works https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom...

Why is there no keyboard on the screen there?

Height of the viewport suggests that onscreen keyboard was opened but not recorded. Here is another video where keyboard was recorded: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom...

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by stavros » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:29 AM UTC

konradkpl wrote: post #36

stavros wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is there no keyboard on the screen there?

Height of the viewport suggests that onscreen keyboard was opened but not recorded. Here is another video where keyboard was recorded: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom...

Ahh very nice! Can't do that without accurate fingers, for sure.

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by arp242 » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:30 AM UTC

One of the people on vi Stackexchange site mostly answers questions from his phone. Glad it works for him, but just seems absolutely mental to me, especially when you have access to a decent machine.

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by ghjfrdghibt » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:34 AM UTC

My initial reaction was: Why?!

But fair play, I find it hard enough to program on a keyboard.

Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:36 AM UTC

thih9 wrote: post #27

pavlov wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's even crazier than my habit of writing notes in macOS TextEdit and never saving them. (Currently at "Untitled 235")

I’m at 380; I discovered that if you open mission control[1], preferably via the four-fingers-swipe-up touchpad gesture, you get some pretty visuals. Also, I have access to all of them on my phone via Files app and the iCloud sync, this is surprisingly practical. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Control_(macOS)

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