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i see a lot of people complaining about typing on older android tablets. most of their frustrations seem to come from missing copy/paste, bold/italic/underline shortcuts, and the difficulty of navigating within a document.
fortunately, with vi, i don't need any of that nonsense... my main concern is typing delay, i'm wondering: what's the termux experience like on #eink tablets?
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While it's been over a decade since I rooted a Nook Simple Touch (e-ink reader) and attempted to use the command-line there (at the time, using the on-screen keyboard), it wasn't horrible. Not great, but not horrible.
I did find that a proper termcap+vi worked better than vim which liked to render a lot more stuff on the screen. Also, particular settings (like 'ruler', 'showmode', 'report', incremental search, possibly visual-bell/flash, etc; and if using vim, items at `:help slow-terminal`) produced a lot more (re)draw & refresh of the screen.