Yea, I am totally agree. In fact I am used to write in nano, haven't
used emacs yet but I tend to use command line apps for work all the
time. But that's true that for example, for a regular user is not so
pleasant to open a shell, write a few commands and take a note. I have
been reading some code and I've coded a very simple menu made in Python
and curses that can simplify the job. It's like a menu where you just
use the arrow keys for moving (up and down), selecting an item (right)
and going back (left). It is translatable (for testing purposes I have
done this thing in English, Spanish and russian) and should be able to
guide a non experienced user throught some menus until he or she will
have nano opened and ready for use. One of my workmates is exploring the
possibility of building a braille keyboard that could be connected to
some of the GPIO pins and we'll see how it goes.
Btw if someone is interested, I could share that code (I mean for that
menu thing) once I will finish and clean everything.
El 13/12/2016 a las 05:47 p. m., Jeffery Mewtamer escribió:
I just slapped my Pi 3 into the official case, put Jessie Lite on an
SD card, installed piespeakup from github, plugged-in a portable USB
power pack earphones, and my wireless USB keyboard, and I got
something that takes notes just as well as my laptop, weighs a
fraction of what the laptop does, allows me to carry a fanny pack
instead of a laptop bag, and doesn't require me to deal with a gimped,
laptop keyboard or a useless screen I can't turn off.
In short, note taking is probably one of the easiest applications of a
Raspberry Pi, especially if you're already familiar with nano, emacs,
Vi, or another text-mode text editor.
Though, if anyone has any recommendations for a pocket qwerty keyboard
suitable for thumb touch typing that doesn't have gimped navigation
keys, I wouldn't mind hearing it. Carrying around a full-sized
keyboard can be cumbersome if I'm carrying things I don't normally
carry.
