HACKER Q&A
📣 ilmucio

eInk Word Processor


More then a year ago I asked on on the vim reddit channel https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ac557i/vim_machine/ about the possibility of concive a specialized editing device on witch program like vim and emacs would be the main process....since then I did not see any product with such characteristic and aim and so I wonder if there are enough interest to push someone with the skill to run crowdfund campaign on it


  👤 em10fan Accepted Answer ✓
eInk would be a poor choice, the flash caused by updating the screen, every time you type a character, would be extremely fatiguing.

This refresh would be very very slow on a decent size screen which would lead to a very noticable typing lag.

I imagine it would also cause rapid wear of the screen, too.

In the few cases of EInk screens being used for signage, they avoid having things like clocks on there, for that reason, and they structure the display so its actually built of many different panels, which can be refreshed individually.