Re: strokes-mode and touchscreen patents? was Re: emacs and touchscreen

[Tassilo Horn]

Hi David,

wow, strokes is really nifty! I didn't know it till now.

Do you know if there's a way to define a stroke by giving a string? The
problem with the ~/.strokes file is that I cannot see how the strokes
look like after defining them, so I'd prefer stuffing something like

(strokes-global-set-stroke
(stroke-from-string (concat
" @@@@@\n"
" @@ @@@@\n"
" @@@ @@@\n"
" @@ @@\n"
" @ @@\n"
" @ @\n"
" @@ @\n"
" @@ @@@\n"
" @@@@ @@@@\n"
" @@@@@@@@@\n"))
'some-command)

Or it would be even much cooler to be able to define strokes that look
like some character:

(strokes-global-set-stroke (stroke-from-char ?o) 'some-command)

Is something like that possible?

Bye,
Tassilo

[David O'Toole]

> Better not try to find out, since distributing infringing things is
> a more serious offense if you know it's infringing than if you don't.

The distributor in question would be the FSF which has distributed
strokes-mode since (apparently) 1997.

> Just stop worrying about all that crap and instead help fight the
> legality of software patents as a whole.

Can you explain why you think sidestepping a perfectly legitimate due
diligence question about part of Emacs is supposed to help the cause
of eliminating software patents? I've never heard an attorney say
"just stop worrying about all that crap."