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From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
Message-Id: <200402231804.i1NI4T0h070788@adat.davidashen.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: sam for pen?
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:04:29 +0400
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> > David Tolpin wrote:
> > > would sam be good for pen input?
> >
> > no
>
> Why? It seems to work just fine with a keyboard, it follows that using a
> pen interface which is only another way to provide the same input
> character stream would work fine as well. All sam really cares about is
> that stream of characters on stdin, not how that stream is generated.

I meant the mouse interface too; and after trying a prototype
on my old Palm IIIxe I am convinced it is the choice. Sam (with
it's mouse operations on the dot) is very convenient for pen
input.

I am going to proceed since it is more than one day hacking
(more than a month, I'm afraid), but it is working now and
I am happy to finally have a hope to have a much more powerful
editor than Memopad on my Palm.

David Tolpin