[yefim323]

I've just download Vim Touch (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.a...) and have been playing around with it for a bit. And I can attest to the fact that editing on a phone is incredibly painful. Once I realized that, though, I also realized that there is very little need for me to ever need to edit code on my phone. So, I see and acknowledge the conceptual problem that Tiled Text is trying to solve but I fear that the audience is far too small for it to be of much use.

[westoncb]

It's more general than for just editing code (a code editor is just all I've built so far): editing English documents by manipulating the units: paragraph, sentence, clause/phrase, word, character -- is the primary application I see for it (Unfortunately I didn't think of this until far into the code editor :)

[lobster_johnson]

Note that the author says, on the web page:

> ... I wrote Tiled Text to get around a mouse/keyboard injury I have ...

So this is not necessarily intended for everyone.

[b1daly]

Given that tablets and smart phones are taking over as ubiquitous computing devices on the contrary I think the need for alternate text inputs is growing rapidly.

I've had an interesting experience using swype on nexus 7. I find my concept of spelling itself is changing'where creating a word is more about the shape than specific correct spelling. Using swype effectively still requires knowledge of how words are spelled and layed out on the QWERTY keyboard. But I see it pointing towards gestural text creation.

[emidln]

vim is actually the only reason I'm willing to do editing in a browser. Having used vim and ex commands for over half of my life, combined with the fact that I actually spend more time thinking about what I want to do rather than typing (pretty sure most of you do the same), makes a command-oriented editor (vim's normal mode) perfect on the go.

I actually like Vim Touch with Hacker Keyboard on my Nexus 7.